Interesting Insurance Statistics
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“Harper’s Index”* for December, 2007, offers us this interesting combinations of statistical information:
Portion of all private insurance companies participating in Medicare that were audited in 2001 and 2006, respectively: 1/4, 1/7.
Number of the forty-nine companies audited in 2003 that were found to have made major errors: 41
Number of these companies that Medicare took any action against: 0
Chance that an American under the age of 65 went without health insurance at some point during the past two years: 1 in 3
Percentage change since 1990 in the number of pawn shops in New York City: +523
Percentage of U.S. CEOs who believed this spring that the economy was either “good” or “excellent”: 84
Percentage of Americans overall who believed this: 37
Percentage of Americans this year who say they are Democrat-leaning and Republican-leaning, respectively: 50, 36.
Number of years since this poll began in 1990 in which the gap favoring either party was so large: 0.
* Harper’s Magazine, December, 2007, p. 17. Available online here for Harper’s subscribers.