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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (10883)	10/30/2009 8:23:41 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

Yet twelve million of them claim they have no health insurance. No one on Medicaid lacks health insurance, unless you're playing with words and rejecting the common usage of Medicaid as "insurance." There are many people who are eligible for Medicaid that have no health insurance because they haven't signed up but no one ON Medicaid lacks insurance. Get your facts straight. Lets look at their blackberry and flat screen TV and then try again to convince me that they can't afford it. I don't disagree with that. However, there are people who really can't afford insurance. You invite the common judgment of the right as "mean spirited" when you lump them in with those for whom "can't afford" means "have other priorities." And yes, I do realize that anecdotes are just that and not proof for larger populations. Glad to hear that. Perhaps, then, you might gauge your language accordingly.