Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, August 24, 2009 9:37:11 PM
Exactly a month ago, Michael Ramirez presented this data in an excellent editorial cartoon, but the news media didn’t pay attention. AEI covered the same ground
in its August 2008 edition of The American, and the national media
still hasn’t caught up. Unfortunately, they will probably not pay much
attention to Jazz Shaw, Cato Institute,
or Hot Air and Ed Morrissey either when we point out that the number of
uninsured Americans is dramatically lower than the 47 million figure
bandied about in the debate.
Do you think they’d listen to the Census Bureau?
It’s not 47 million. It’s not 36 million. The number of Americans uninsured out of necessity and not economic choice is at most
14 million. Understanding that will bring a much more balanced
approach to health-care reform on a scale commensurate with the
problem, rather than a hysterical rush to throw out a system that works
for hundreds of millions Americans.