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Saw some numbers broken down last night on Lou Dobbs show on CNN
Obama says there are 46 million uninsured Americans.
That number he is using is actually 45.6 million and it comes from a govt. census that asked people if at any time in 2007 were they uninsured.
In other words a person could have been insured 11 months of that year and then moved to another job or opened his own business or became unemployed or whatever and didn't have health insurance for every one of the 365 days that year.
Then 7 million of those people are on medicare, medicaid or some other govt. health program but for whatever reason chose NOT to make use of it. (as in people who don't want or need any help from the govt., I have several older family members who feel that way. They take care of themselves the way people always did)
Another several million of those people are illegal immigrants.
And then another 7 million + people are younger folks who don't want health insurance (for instance I never had any health insurance until I turned 40...and then only got it to "protect" my family...until then I never paid one penny in health insurance and I paid my own way to the doctor...just like most guys in their 20's and 30's do)
Anyway, by the time that they finished crunching numbers...the ACTUAL number of long term uninsured Americans that actually want or need insurance is around 8 million. And that includes bums and homeless people.
So now the few of us that are still left in this economy with enough income to actually pay our taxes are going to foot a ONE TRILLION dollar bill for other people's health care?
Just something to think about. Maybe it's worth it. Or maybe they are setting us all up for yet another big money grab. Knowing human nature...my feeling is this thing is gonna come down on the side of greed. Either way it's lose/lose for the people.
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