37% can afford it, 20% aren't citizens, 33% qualify for free insurance that they don't bother to sign up for. I doubt that these numbers are actually cumulative (i.e. 37% + 20% + 33% != 90%), due to overlap in the percentages, but one would imagine that they would snowball in some manner, and mitigate the vast majority of the 47MM figure.
37% of the uninsured might be well off enough to afford insurance, but that means 63% are not well off to afford it. THESE people are the ones to worry about.
Well, I would consider that another distortion, and in this context it's reasonable for you to point that out. An emergency room is not allowed to turn away someone who needs medical care, so I understand his claim even though I don't agree with the spin. In either case, one distortion doesn't justify another -- if both sides are being dishonest, it doesn't make either side any less dishonest.
For a completely different point of view, maybe the number of uninsured people could be counted as zero. This is according to John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy. He says that anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance.-Here's the quote: "So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime. The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured ... So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved." -The quote is from The Dallas Morning News, from an article entitled, "Texas Still Leads Nation In Rate of Uninsured Residents."
37% can afford it, 20% aren't citizens, 33% qualify for free insurance that they don't bother to sign up for. I doubt that these numbers are actually cumulative (i.e. 37% + 20% + 33% != 90%), due to overlap in the percentages, but one would imagine that they would snowball in some manner, and mitigate the vast majority of the 47MM figure.
37% of the uninsured might be well off enough to afford insurance, but that means 63% are not well off to afford it. THESE people are the ones to worry about.
Well, I would consider that another distortion, and in this context it's reasonable for you to point that out. An emergency room is not allowed to turn away someone who needs medical care, so I understand his claim even though I don't agree with the spin. In either case, one distortion doesn't justify another -- if both sides are being dishonest, it doesn't make either side any less dishonest.
For a completely different point of view, maybe the number of uninsured people could be counted as zero. This is according to John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy. He says that anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance.-Here's the quote: "So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime. The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured ... So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved." -The quote is from The Dallas Morning News, from an article entitled, "Texas Still Leads Nation In Rate of Uninsured Residents."