<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9e1e92bf-1a46-40e8-99fd-465ba4822555/4FDCA529-23A5-4A87-950F-0D8B9AF46660/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/09/100-million-americans-already-use-govt-health-care.html" href="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/09/100-million-americans-already-use-govt-health-care.html" style="font-size: 11px;">smartpei.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/09/100-million-americans-already-use-govt-health-care.html">100 Million Americans already use Govt Health Care</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/09/100-million-americans-already-use-govt-health-care.html"><P> Folks, 100 million Americans with insurance are already on some sort of Government plan.</P> <P><A href="http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicareEnRpts/Downloads/06All.pdf">43 million</A> are on Medicare <BR /><A href="http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7606.pdf">42 million</A> are on Medicaid</P> <P>4 million are on Tricare (active and reserve military, plus retirees) - no link, this is an estimate</P> <P><A href="http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9911/02-25-Health_Insurance.pdf">8 million</A> are covered by the Veterans Administration <BR /><A href="http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalCHIPPolicy/downloads/CHIPEverEnrolledYearGraph.pdf">7.4 million</A> are on SCHIP <BR /><A href="http://www.ihs.gov/JobsCareerDevelop/careers/">1.8 million</A> are served by the Indian Health Services <BR /><A href="http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/07fedfun.pdf">2.7 million Americans</A> are offered the FEHBP <BR /><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service">656,000</A> are US Post Office employees <BR /> <A href="http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/07stus.txt">3.8 million</A> are full-time State government employees <BR /><A href="http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/07locus.txt">10.9 million workers</A> are full-time Local government employees - 6 million of them public school teachers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/09/100-million-americans-already-use-govt-health-care.html">100 Million of us already have "government" health insurance!!! Why isn't this number constantly being thrown in the face of the idiots who tell us the government should "stay out" of health care?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/09/100-million-americans-already-use-govt-health-care.html">the "Public Option" is no more or less than what is already offered to 100 million people all over the country</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4FDCA529-23A5-4A87-950F-0D8B9AF46660/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!