Frustration over health care grips California
A report released this week by the UCLA Center for Health
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I wonder where all those uninsured came from?
Could the millions of new uninsured be the millions of new unemployed who can't afford insurance any more?
Could any of these millions of uninsured be any of the unemployed who came to the sanctuary state for the free welfare, free education, free health care, ...?
Will these numbers climb to include the millions more new unemployed because of the anti-business, anti-people, pro-environment policies enacted by the state of California and the federal government?
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Disraeli
ReplyDeleteIt breaks down like this: there are about 40 million uninsured in the U.S. 32 million of those are poor folks, who use the FREE services required to be offered by all government-funded hospitals, so it doesn't really matter if they have insurance or not. The remaining 8 million are people who can afford insurance, but don't want to pay for it, preferring to pay as they go instead.