Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The statistic of the day...

...is from -- where else? -- Ezra Klein's blog (my emphasis):

Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured people in the country. Twenty-six percent of Texas residents lack health insurance, compared with a national average that hovers around 17 percent. That works out to about 6.3 million uninsured Texans, a population nearly equal in size to the entire state of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts has, of course, near universal coverage (thanks to Mitt Romney). And Rick Perry is the GOP frontrunner?

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