How many of those 15% are illegals?
How many can afford insurance and choose not to?
Of the 46 million, about 10 million are non-citizens.
Figure another 10 million can afford insurance but choose not to purchase it or are eligible for an existing program like Medicaid/SCHIP but are too uninterested/unmotivated/lazy/insert other adjective here to sign up
Of the remaining people, probably half are between jobs. They are temporarily uninsured. They will find work and get insurance again.
My best estimate is that we have about 10 million people who want insurance but cannot get it. Obama and the RAT party want to overhaul the entire system for a tiny percentage of the population. It’s obscene.
None of the above is to deny that we need to do something to make insurance available to those who want insurance but have no realistic access to it.
Just my two cents.