[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?

[Badabing Badablonde]

Another point that the article makes is the so-called link to health outcomes and lack of coverage. While there is proof of healthcare outcomes disparities between the insured and uninsured, the same disparities can be found in countries where socialized medicine supposedly reduces the number of uninsured. So an increase in coverage is not necessarily going to make ths country healthier. (even though the causal links for disparities might be different between private pay countries and socialized countries).