In the now-endless blather about health care that we are subjected to each and every day, one figure keeps coming up: "46 million uninsured".
It seems that the entire rationale for government controlled healthcare is predicated on that number.
Has anyone even looked at the 46 million figure or how it was derived?
I have some questions to ask about that figure.
First, does it include undocumented illegal aliens?
Has the indigent/whacko/homeless factor been factored OUT of it?
Has the figure of folks who COULD have private health insurance but refuse to buy it been factored OUT?
Let's say that the illegals are IN the figures. Dumping them out, as is legally required based on our current laws, means that the figure reduces to 26 million.
How about the whacko homeless? You know who they are. You have hundreds to thousands in your own city, probably. There are several million of those village idiots who will never allow themselves to be put into systems designed for their own relief. Let's say that there are 3 million of them. Now the figure is 23 million uninsured.
Now let's look at the refuseniks. Harder to say how many of those there are, but I have several friends who refuse to purchase health insurance, even though it is offered by the companies they work for. They save the money they would have spent on premiums. None of them has "hit the wall" of a catastrophic illness that overtaxed their system, but they all could. Nevertheless, they are included as uninsured. Let's say that there are 15 million of them, but there could easily be more. That brings the total uninsured down to 8 million.
Now, if an adequate policy of health insurance can be purchased for a person for $500/month, that's $4 billion a month to insure the actual uninsured who will sit still long enough to enroll. $48 billion a year. A far cry from the trillions of dollars being tossed around these days.
Let's look at policy now. Suppose a variant of the "Massachusetts system" were put into effect nationally. In that system, all citizens of MA are REQUIRED to have health insurance of some sort. That system is not flawless, but could be improved before enacting at a Federal level.
Let's say that we were all required to have privately-issued health insurance. We all have privately-issued car insurance by fiat, so health insurance for the same reason is not much of a stretch. That would put the refuseniks, whom I estimate to be AT LEAST ONE THIRD of the trumpeted total of uninsured, out of the equation. Dump the illegals out (if they're in, but I'm sure they are counted), and you have over two thirds of the total gone. Adjust the total for other measurable factors, and suddenly we are talking about a HIGHLY manageable problem without having to socialize the entire medical system to solve the problem.
So, tell me again why we are going to socialized medicine?
BTW, for the liberals progressives who read this, I realize that illegals need health care too. They should be required to pay for it, and if they can't, the bill should be sent to THEIR governments, who have ALL encouraged them to invade the USA illegally. It's a slam-dunk case to prove, in the World Court, that the government of Mexico, for one, encourages the illegal immigration and even facilitates it. Send Mexico City a bill each month, and when they refuse to pay it, take a lien on Bay of Campeche oil. The Mexicans aren't doing much with that oilfield, anyway. Since we and the Dutch left after building up their facilities, production has declined by 80% there. I'm sure OUR drillers and riggers can retrieve that oil, and I'm also sure that the US Navy can protect their efforts.
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