[Badabing Badablonde]

Have not checked out EPI yet....never heard of it before.

[Graybeard58]

At least 18 million of the uninsured are under the age of 35 and earn more than enough to purchase health insurance that would cost less than $100 per month.

Less than $100 per month? Yeah, right.

[DaveTesla]

Here is their report:
http://www.epionline.org/studies/oneill_06-2009.pdf

[Badabing Badablonde]

http://www.epionline.org/study_detail.cfm?sid=122 They zeroed in on a pet peeve of mine:

A productive conversation about health policy must also separate the concept of a lack of health coverage from a lack of healthcare. Individuals without adequate health insurance still receive medical care from a variety of sources.

I am so tired of hearing about the healthcare crisis. There is no healthcare crisis. What we DO have is a government-manufactured healthcare-coverage crisis.

[Tammy8]

I am convinced the largest number of uninsured in this country are illegals. Illegals are the elephant in the room when healthcare and social service costs are debated and few want to bring it up. We have no obligation to allow them to overwhelm our healthcare system like we do.

[NEMDF]

Interestingly, the number of so-called “uninsured” was being touted as 47 million for the past many months. Then in April, a new $.63/pack cigarette tax was presumably making it possible to take 11 million children off the “uninsured” rolls, but no one quoting the so-called figures has ever reduced the 47 million by the 11 million who were somehow being picked up due to the new cigarette tax revenues. Why is no one asking about these things?

[TC Rider]

The late Jesse Helms put it well, “There’s some people who would rather make a payment on a new bass boat than buy health insurance.”