As I said in my last post the new Small Area Health Insurance Estimates are out for every county in the US.  The overall trend for the state can be seen below since 2008 for those between the ages of 18 and 65.  The change in the rate has leveled off from 2010 to 2011 […]

I don’t have anything to say about the Newtown shootings or the fiscal cliff.  I’ve written posts on those topics before on the mass shooting which occurred a mile from where I live in 2009 and on the debt ceiling talks which are now being made and rerun from July 2011.  In my last post […]

The Census Bureau has two estimates of the uninsured that comes out every year.  One for the national and state level which is based on the Current Population Survey and the other for the State and County level which is the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates or SAHIE that I’ve written many posts about here.  […]

Infant Mortality vs. Income for Certain States & Countries in 2006 The Gapminder Institute has come out with an online interactive graphic showing the United States’ individual states and all of the other nations of the world.  I created the graph at the left to show the relationship between per capita income and infant mortality […]

I have been posting less on this blog lately partly because things have been heating up on the Pennsylvanian’s United for Single Payer/Healthcare for All PA site in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).  For example our new blogger Scott Tyson, MD has posted articles by state […]

Last Friday I did a post on the PUSH site showing how healthcare polling has remained consistent in the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act.  Last night I came across a tweet by Michele Bachmann stating: MicheleBachmann ‏@MicheleBachmann 18 Jun 83% of surveyed doctors considering leaving medical industry […]

My new guest post on the PUSH website is now up looking at the uninsured and the 2010 PA Senate race.  PUSH: Correlating PA’s Uninsured with Sen Pat Toomey’s 2010 Vote **Related Posts** Making Sense of the Pat Toomey-Joe Sestak Senate Race    POLL: Dislike of healthcare law crosses party lines, 1 in 4 Dems […]

My new post for Pennsylvanian’s United for Single Payer Healthcare (PUSH) is up correlating the updated PA County % uninsured data with other county health and demographic data.  PUSH: Correlating PA County % Uninsured Rates with Other County Level Measures

The local Pittsburgh chapter of Healthcare 4 All  PA is launching it’s own site with several talented authors.  The link with the first post on gender and racial differences in Pennsylvania’s uninsured can be seen here. Pennsylvanians United for Single Payer Healthcare year % uninsured white MOE +/- % % uninsured black MOE +/- % […]