Virtually everyone is insured as a side effect of being an employee at a company that provides access to a group health insurance plan as a benefit. This has the side effect of coupling people's jobs to their health insurance, which drastically reduces labor mobility.
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That's cause most of the people are insured and there is no pressure for lowering rates for the uninsured.
Virtually everyone is insured as a side effect of being an employee at a company that provides access to a group health insurance plan as a benefit. This has the side effect of coupling people's jobs to their health insurance, which drastically reduces labor mobility.
83% is certainly a large majority, but it is not "virtually everyone".
The remainder in this statistic are covered by what? Medicare/medicaid? Private insurance? Co-op plans? Nothing at all?
17% have no coverage at all.
56% get it from their employer, and 8% buy their own private insurance.
Source: US Census Bureau, 2009 figures http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf (Starting on page 22)
How many of those 17% are illegal immigrants? Do you have that data?
17% of 300 million = 50 million. There are ~10-12 million illegal immigrants so up to 20%.