Insight Into "Half the World Has No Health Insurance" Claim

An unbelieveable piece in Doug Ross' blog that spells out who is driving the whole "47 million Americans without health insurance" claim we see every time we see the news.

Turns out about half that number (which is highly suspect anyway) is made up of illegals, who shouldn't be here anyway, and citizens who earn upwards of $50,000 a year and just plain choose not to be covered. In the case of this latter group, totaling 17 million folks, many choose not to insure themselves because they feel they're healthy and just don't need insurance.

What has always bugged me about this whole controversy is that it isn't about healing sickness, but about some right to health insurance. Why can't people get medical care and just pay for it? If they choose not to have insurance that covers catastrophic illness or injury, that is the individual's call to make. If they pass on buying this insurance and then can't afford to pay for care, adios amigo, as [many of] the illegals say.

The other part of Doug's post reveals who's behind this whole scam, a group that is a front group for unions. Miraculously, it is impossible for this group to put out a news release that isn't picked up by every news outlet in the known universe and published without question as fact.

Yet another example that the MSM is totally in the pocket of leftists.