Health Care Legislation in Utah: the Struggle to Resolve the Problem of the Uninsured

Dr Roberta Q. Herzberg
Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Political Science
(435) 797-1307
Bobbih@hass.usu.edu

Presentation date: March 30, 2007
Presentation (PowerPoint)

How to measure the uninsured?

• Not even the experts agree on definition
• Those without insurance continuously for a fixed time period (1 year)
• The number uninsured at a single point in time
• Those without insurance at any point within a specified time.
• The scope of the problem varies dramatically depending on which we use
• 25 million, 46 million, or even 65 million