Michael Moore was wrong about health insurance.
So were President Bush, Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), presidential candidates former Sen. John Edwards and Gov. Mike Huckabee and The Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, People magazine and Time magazine, as well as CNN, CBS and ABC.
Each of these people and media outlets incorrectly claimed the number of uninsured to be 40 to 50 million Americans. The actual total is open to debate. But there are millions of people who should be excluded from that tally, including: those who aren’t American citizens, people who can afford their own insurance, and people who already qualify for government coverage but haven’t signed up.
Government statistics also show 45 percent of those without insurance will have insurance again within four months after job transitions.
Accounting for all those factors, one prominent study places the total for the long-term uninsured as low as 8.2 million – a very different reality than the media and national health care advocates claim.
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ReplyDeleteI was a bit surprised to see you call out Huckabee in this particular post. I don't remember exactly what his policy goal was during the campaign for healthcare, but I do know he is a huge advocate for preventative healthcare measures and had a good talk at the first American Solutions summit on this topic.
we know this but ,even say there were these 47million,OK ?
ReplyDeletewhy the hell would it then take hundreds of billions to get them insured and insurance "changes" for the other 300million Americans ?