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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4692)	2/21/2008 11:26:15 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

47 million is almost a meaningless figure because it includes people eligible for "free" government insurance who don't get it, people who are eligible for insurance through work (at reduced rates) and don't sign up, and people who have reasonably high incomes. Remove all those to get the people who really can't afford insurance and you probably have less than 10 million, and even for them not having insurance doesn't mean not having health care. To get "universal coverage" you don't just have to help them get insurance, you have to force everyone that declined insurance to get it. You have to put your opinion, that insurance is the most important thing for them to get with their money, ahead of their opinion.