Stats from Other Sources

Senator Kennedy died today. Fought for public health insurance for a better part of his career and sadly he didn't get to see it happen.

It's late, and I have a headache, so no deep thoughts, but in an effort ot continue the daily commitment here are some stats from national women's orgs.

• More than 17% of women are uninsured, and even more are underinsured.
• Between 1999 and 2008, health insurance premiums increased 119 percent — 3.5 times more than wages during the same period.
• 3 in 5 women are unable to pay her medical bills.
• Women only make $.78 to a man's dollar.
• The U.S. has no guaranteed medical leave for childbirth; we're trailing 168 countries in the company of only Lesotho, Liberia, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland.
• The U.S. is near the bottom of the list -- again -- in our public support for quality childcare for children of working parents.
• Women only make up 16% of our representatives in Congress.
• And our right to safe, accessible, legal abortion is threatened by hostile state legislators as well as by domestic terrorists who intimidate, harass and even kill health care providers.