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

To: i-node who wrote (9219)	9/9/2009 11:21:57 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

Apparently there are in fact 45 million people in America who do not have health insurance at many points in time. after removing illegal immigrants we are left with roughly 34 million Americans who don't have insurance at one time. Of that there are many millions of young males who prefer to risk financial disaster over subsidizing more expensive insurance welfare recipients. As I have previously posted, actuarial rates for under 25 males is very low and most will accept paying for insurance when it is priced correctly. The under 25 females get upset at having to pay according to risk as do every age of females until the two sexes rates converge after childbearing rates decline. The real number of Americans who cannot get health insurance but who would if they could appears to be around 5 million. The 45 million number includes several million who are between jobs. It also includes many more who choose not to have insurance for various reasons including religious objection to modern medicine. Forcing people to subsidize those who elect not to have coverage is a big government boondoggle that would bankrupt the nation while denying currently available care to most Americans.