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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (9298)	9/12/2009 11:35:33 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 42652

The overall number of the uninsured rose from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The fact that tens of millions of Americans may be one major illness away from bankruptcy is unacceptable. But there is also some heartening news: The increase was relatively small considering the depth of the economic crisis. That is only because government programs helped offset the decline of private insurance and employer-based coverage. An aging population made more people eligible for Medicare, that much-maligned “single-payer” government program that provides coverage to almost all of the nation’s elderly, usually to their deep satisfaction. And deepening poverty rates made more people eligible for Medicaid, a joint federal-state program to cover the poor. A strong push to enroll children in either Medicaid or S-chip, the state health insurance program for children from low-income families, has driven the number and rate of uninsured children to its lowest levels since 1987, the first year comparable data were collected. This is a stunning achievement — courtesy of your federal and state governments. Why do they continue to do this? To count those who are eligible for Medicaid and other government assistance amongst the "uninsured"? Why do they continue to could illegals, who receive health care here just like anyone else, but surely have no such entitlement? And why do they count plain-old healthy people who just decide they don't want insurance? How about a little honesty in the media for a change? (Rhetorical question - I know the answer to why there is no honesty).

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