claim: of the roughly 15 percent of americans who don’t have health insurance, "half of them made more than $50,000 a year."
author: rand paul
evidence_1: sep 28, 2015 ... most of them — about 56 percent — fell into three major groups that were widely  expected to have high uninsurance rates: immigrants, young adults and people  in the so-called medicaid gap. but that still left more than 14 million americans  who don't have insurance and don't fall into any of these ...
evidence_2: apr 6, 2015 ... he said people choose not to buy insurance "because of the expense." survey  data supports this claim, so we rated it true. however, paul also said of  uninsured americans, "half of them made more than $50,000 a year." according  to the census, it's closer to 30 percent, so we rated the statement false.
evidence_3: sep 8, 2015 ... but the great national crisis is the fact that too many other young adults are not  going to college or, if they do, don't graduate, in large part because they .....  degree has a return on investment of roughly 15 percent a year, meaning that  every $100 invested in education brings an additional $15 in income for ...
evidence_4: most of the data in the latest survey, frankly, are less than earth-shattering: 49  percent of part-time workers would prefer to work more hours at their current  wage; 29 percent of americans expect to earn a higher income in the coming  year; 43 percent of homeowners who have owned their home for at least a year  believe its ...
evidence_5: oct 21, 2015 ... and yet more than half of all workers in this country make less than that each  month. ... it has been estimated that it takes approximately $50,000 a year to  support a middle class lifestyle for a family of four in the u.s. today, and so the  fact that 71 percent of all workers make less than that amount shows how ...