Posted on 06/22/2009 2:45:05 AM PDT by Scanian
THE rush to remake the 17 percent of America's econ omy known as its health- care system is matched only by the muddle of the motivations driving it. Above all else, consider the confusion of health insurance with access to actual health care.
The reality is that having insurance is not the equivalent of having access to care. In America and abroad, people with coverage (government or private) can lack access to timely care -- while those without insurance in the United States may in fact receive timely care while paying little for it.
Official counts place uninsured Americans at roughly 46 million, an alarming 15 percent of the population. Yet a closer look paints a less scary picture. Of the 46 million, one in three, or 17 million, live in a household with an income greater than $50,000. Four in 10 are 18 to 34 years old -- an age range where health spending averages less than $1,000 a year out of pocket.
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The corruption involved in this is pure ... Clinton.
Let’s see. $1.6 trillion to get healthcare to those who can’t “afford” it. That is, those that refuse to purchase inexpensive healthcare policies. So, the rest of us are going to be denied healthcare so that illegal aliens, the lazy and stupid and corrupt (most Democrats) can leech off the rest of us.
And the Dems and the contributors will get filthy rich (or richer) in the bargain.
WHERE do you think the $1.6 trillion is going?
Anything Clinton and Obama likes is bad for America.
btttt
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