{"id":784,"date":"2008-04-21T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2008-04-21T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:34:00","slug":"household-income-us-census-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Household Income, US Census Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Household Income-2005–Part 1<\/a>:
“Table HINC-05. Percent Distribution of Households, by Selected Characteristics Within Income Quintile and Top 5 Percent in 2006<\/p>\n

[Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2007 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Numbers in thousands. ]
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I always get confused when I hear people talking about middle income families\/households, and it alwasy seems to me that if you are in the DC or other elite groups, $100K or even $200K puts you squarely in the middle class.<\/p>\n

As you can see by the table (if you can’t read it, follow the link to the Census Bureau<\/a>), the true middle, is between $37K and $60K for the true middle quintile and between $20K and $97K for the 3\/5 in the middle.<\/p>\n

Now, just to follow up on something I heard McCain (and the usual propogandists agains National Health Insurance systems of any kind) say is that you’ll be taxed to death. Now, if you are in the middle 3\/5, and you are paying, for argument’s sake, $12K for healthcare (either out of your wages or paying it yourself), how, again, do you lose by adopting a single payer or <\/em>Bismarck style insurance <\/em><\/a>plan?<\/p>\n

And I guess I learned something from <\/em>Frontline and Uwe Reinhardt<\/em><\/a>: I have to add <\/em>“Bismarckian Insurance Plan<\/em><\/a>,” to my categories\/tags.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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