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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4514)	2/14/2008 4:06:55 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If they are covered by insurance, public or private, or self-insured how can they be considered uninsured? You missed a few key words. "Eligible for/covered" is what I said. Perhaps I should have said "qualified" instead. These are people who could get, say, Medicaid or Medicare if they just bothered to sign up so they are technically uninsured. As or the self-insured, those are the folks who choose to pay-as-you-go for their medical care as I did with my boutique doctor rather than buy a policy so they are technically uninsured. Neither of these groups requires rescue from a "criminal" system. The people who should be the subject of our attention, the 8 million or so, are those who want to be insured but can't get affordable insurance for one reason or another. Which is why the components of the 47 million matter.