The 47 Million Uninsured Myth

Ed Morrissey at hotair.com has an excellent breakdown.

Essentially, there are really just 14 million uninsured out of necessity. The solution as he states:

Assuming we bought individual health insurance plans for each of these people at $300 per month, a cost that having a 14-million-member pool should allow. We could insure them for $50.4 billion a year. That would not be a very good solution for a number of reasons, but it costs a lot less than the $2 trillion over ten years that the CBO estimates ObamaCare will cost, plus it avoids the entire issue of overhauling a system most of us like. In fact, if the idea is to save money through ObamaCare, then this should be the baseline: any plan Congress creates should cost less than the $50.4 billion a year it would cost to simply buy insurance for everyone who can’t afford it.

Healthcare is yet another case of Liberal demagoguery being used to usurp the free market and fundamentally change our form of government. They are attempting it with climate change vis a vis cap and trade. The government now owns most of the American automotive industry and a large portion of the banking industry. When does it stop? The townhall demonstrations and the tea party movement have been brought out of all this government intervention in the economy. If the intervention continues the movements will only grow. I hope for the sake of our Republic they grow regardless of whether or not the government continues to overreach.