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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (2848)11/13/2007 6:06:00 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
For whatever reasons, 15 percent of our people (approximately 47 million) do not have access (whether it is their own fault or not) to the best health care system in the world.

15% aren't currently covered by insurance, but many of them are either people who qualify for government provided insurance but are healthy and haven't bothered to sign up yet, or people who are easily wealthy enough to afford insurance and just decide not to buy it.

Both groups would have to be subtracted out from any calculation of people who don't have access to our health care system.

(And of course everyone has some access to the system, but I can understand why you don't consider being able to use emergency rooms as "access to the best health care system in the world.)
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