September, 2009 -

Recently I was confused because the president had dropped the count of the number of people without health insurance from 48 million to 30 million.

It took me a few days, but I figured it out. Bowing to pressure, the president claimed that the health care plan he was proposing (which nobody has seen yet) will not cover illegal aliens. (Never mind that after the bill is passed, the president intends to provide amnesty to illegal aliens. Though, that will make the number of uninsured jump right back up to 48 million. But hey, 18 million... that's just a rounding error in Washington.)

Anyway, I decided to dissect the 30 million number. That's what we're supposedly reshaping our entire health care system for... 30 million, hard-working Americans.

I learned that a large portion of this number includes families whose breadwinners are between jobs. So their absence of coverage is temporary. The government's COBRA plan often compensates for such temporary loss of insurance. That covers that.

So, for that, we're allowing the government to take over 17% of the U.S. economy for this?

Well, not quite.

Most of the other, poor uninsured mortals are young people, who generally have no need for health care insurance. They are starting out their families, buying their first house, paying for hundreds of thousands of cell minutes, and other essentials. Paying a thousand dollars or so a month for health insurance makes no sense for them.

And then there is me (and, I suppose, a few million other people kinda' like me -- though, not a lot like me.)

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