But Mr. McCain's constituents in Arizona aren't as lucky as McCain and his family.

Here's the truth about healthcare in Arizona, this is the information, John McCain doesn't want you to know about.

Less access to care

20.3% or 1,145,000 working-age Arizonans,** did not have health insurance in 2007. • 1,301,816 Arizonans are enrolled in AHCCCS, the state's Medicaid program. It usually adds about 27,000 people each year, but the enrollment has surged by 183,000 people over the past year. • $396.5 million was paid by Arizona hospitals in 2008 to cover the costs of bad debt and charity care for the uninsured.

Quality of care

20% of Arizona children ages 19 to 35 months did not receive required immunizations. • World Health Organization ranks the United States No. 37 in overall health care. The report, issued in 2000, ranks 191 nations based on factors such as life expectancy, health responsiveness and financial measures. • 19 percent of Arizona women have not had a mammogram in the past two years, and 25 percent of Arizona children did not visit a dentist in the past year.

Administration and advocacy costs

300 people are employed at Phoenix Children's Hospital to process paperwork so the hospital gets paid. • $12.2 million in campaign contributions from insurance, health and pharmaceutical industries have been sent to members of Congress for the 2009-2010 election cycle. • $5.4 billion spent by pharmaceutical industry in 2006 on consumer advertisements. * Projected for 2009 ** Ages 18-64. Those 65 and over are eligible for Medicare, the government's insurance program for the elderly. *** Does not include pregnancy-related diabetes

[Sources: Census Bureau, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Dartmouth Atlas Project, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Coalition on Health Care, American Journal of Medicine, Center for Responsive Politics, Republic research]

I guess we now know why Mr. McCain ejected this blind woman from his town hall, she must have had a question about the collapse of the healthcare system in Arizona.



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