{"id":4940,"date":"2009-06-17T02:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T07:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2009-06-17T02:46:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T07:46:23","slug":"he-did-say-46-million-uninsured-people-didnt-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4940","title":{"rendered":"He Did Say “46 Million Uninsured People<\/i>” Didn’t He?"},"content":{"rendered":"

…because President Obama conveniently failed to say “Americans.” In the spirit of creating crises that ostensibly only larger government can solve…as long as we’re counting the “uninsured”…I know there are a great many other living beings <\/em>that aren’t insured too.<\/p>\n

The administration uses the “46 million uninsured”<\/a> as a reason to nationalize health care. But the Census Bureau says about a fifth of those aren’t U.S. citizens. In fact, a goodly number are illegal aliens.<\/p>\n

According to “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States,” a Census Bureau report published last August, of the 45.6 million persons in the U.S. that did not have health insurance at some point in 2007, 9.7 million, or about 21%, were not U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

“Being uninsured is a transitory state, since most uninsured Americans<\/strong> [emphasis mine-JR] are only without coverage for a short time.”…only 19 million Americans go without insurance for a full year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we work real hard, enlist our nation’s Neighborhood Organizers\u00ae<\/sup>, and count house pets for example, we might find close to “100 Million Uninsured” if we discretely drop the “people” moniker altogether.<\/p>\n

Subtract noncitizens and those who can afford their own insurance but choose not to purchase it, and the number of uninsured falls dramatically. “Many Americans are uninsured by choice,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…but what about house plants<\/em>! People talk to their plants, which means they have feelings, which means they suffer, which means they have a right to access affordable health care. Since most plants don’t have legs, we need to provide transportation as well.<\/p>\n

Now <\/em>we’ve got ourselves a crisis<\/em>!…that only government <\/em>can solve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…because President Obama conveniently failed to say “Americans.” In the spirit of creating crises that ostensibly only larger government can solve…as long as we’re counting the “uninsured”…I know there are a great many other living beings that aren’t insured too. The administration uses the “46 million uninsured” as a reason to nationalize health care. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}