NBC Nightly News - 1999-10-04
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[0:00] 1970 armed war. [music]
[0:04] >> Without a net, a national emergency, no
[0:06] health insurance for one in six
[0:08] Americans. You might be surprised who's
[0:10] at risk. Payback. America's biggest auto
[0:14] insurer. State Farm paying millions for
[0:16] making body shops use cheap parts. How
[0:19] dangerous for all drivers? In depth
[0:22] tonight, outbreak. Growing concern about
[0:24] a dangerous virus. How far will it
[0:27] spread? [music]
[0:28] How other mystery illnesses cross the US
[0:30] border and the fleecing of America and
[0:33] SOS to taxpayers from the Coast Guard.
[0:36] Half a billion dollars lost in false
[0:38] alarms.
[0:40] [music]
[0:41] From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:45] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:48] Bro.
[0:50] Good evening. In the midst of the
[0:52] greatest wave of prosperity in American
[0:54] history, more people making more money
[0:56] than ever before, there's a ticking time
[0:58] bomb. Health care and how to pay for it.
[1:01] The percentage of Americans without
[1:03] health insurance went up sharply last
[1:05] year. So now one in six is unprotected.
[1:08] More than 44 million American people
[1:11] either can't afford insurance or are
[1:13] prepared to run the risk. We begin
[1:15] tonight with two reports on who some of
[1:17] them are and why everyone has a stake in
[1:19] this. Starting with NBC's Jim ABA.
[1:24] >> The American economy humming along on
[1:26] the productivity of hard workers like
[1:28] Denver's David Ziggler. $13 an hour but
[1:32] no healthcare.
[1:33] >> Can't afford insurance. It's just too
[1:35] expensive.
[1:35] >> One of 44.3 million people in this
[1:38] country. 16% of the population. The
[1:41] Census Bureau reports today not
[1:43] protected by health insurance.