Erik Who?

Percentage of Nonelderly Americans Without Health Insurance Coverage, 1987-2006

Erik Larsen has decided to run against Rep Robin Brown if he receives the GOP endorsement .Larson said in the Albert Lea Tribune that “My enemy is not Robin Brown, my enemy is the policies and the politics. So his enemy is the policies and the politics. Sounds like he is getting into the wrong business

Regarding health care Mr Larsen said he does not believe that universal health care — a single-payer government-run health care — is the answer he goes on to state "In the United States everyone has access to health care"

Oh really, according to Cover the Uninsured website

Forty-seven million Americans, including more than
9 million children, are living without health care coverage

the website goes on to state

The problem of the uninsured is continuing to
grow. The federal government estimates that 47 million individuals lacked
health insurance coverage of any kind during 2006. Other research shows that
tens of millions more Americans go without health coverage for shorter
periods of time.

Recent Census Bureau data demonstrate that the
problem of the uninsured continued in 2006. According to figures released in
August 2007,


1. 47 million people -- 15.8 percent of the total U.S.
population -- were uninsured in 2006, up slightly from 15.3 percent in the
previous year.

2. The percentage of the non-elderly population that is
uninsured has climbed steadily from 15.9 percent in 1994 to 17.9 percent in 2006
(with a slight dip of no more than one percentage point around the turn of the
century)

Did you also know that

1. Two thirds of the uninsured are low income -
and eight in ten come from families with full or part time workers.

2. Uninsured workers are more likely to work for
small firms such as agriculture, construction and services were employers do not offer affordable coverage if any coverage at all.


It looks like the Freeborn county Republicans new candidate is out of touch.