“Not one of these comments addresses the real issue at hand: there are 50 million Americans without health insurance.”
And how many of those either choose to go uninsured, or are only uninsured for small portions of the year? Let’s crunch the numbers.
- Seventeen million of the uninsured in this country live in households that make more than $50,000 a year. I guess for them, big screen TV > health insurance.
- Fourteen million are eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP, but for whatever reason they just haven’t signed up.
- Millions more are either, 1) illegal aliens who wouldn’t buy insurance anyway, or 2) are only uninsured for brief periods of the year.
Throw these out the window, and you’re left with a number of people much closer to 8 million who are truly going without coverage. And even for these people there are emergency rooms all over the country that will provide them services free of cost.
JB, instead of dismissing every response because it’s not “progressive enough” (i.e. liberal), try doing a bit of research on the subject. Because it’s apparent to me after reading your piece and subsequent comments that you’ve been badly misinformed by a very dishonest filmmaker.
For a little perspective I’d recommend checking out freemarketcure.com.
