Thread: Anybody else as discouraged as me this AM

Ya'll need to check your math on the 32 million. That's a whitehouse number. It actually includes illegal aliens - yes, we're gonna pick up the tab and people who are temporarily without due to job changes etc. The real number is more like 12 to 15 million. But let's work with 32. 32 represents about 10% of the US population. So 90% have it and you know fromt he polls that we're basically pretty happy with it. Now how many of the 32 are:

1) Illegal?
2) Insane and walking the streets?
3) Drug users?
4) Black market folks with plenty of money, but report none so they get gov't assistance ie drug runners and only in cash folks?
5) Folks that are hard workers, but temporarily without who will soon be covered again, ie switching jobs, temporarily out of work, or kids in college and on their own, single and uncovered but will be married and covered in the next 1 to 2 years etc, etc, etc.

I've heard the "real" number is 15 million that actually want health insurance, but can't afford it. I'd bet the real number is closer to 4 to 6 backing out the above.

So, using my number and assuming a minimum type policy would be $500 a month, we could just flat out give insurance to those 7 million at a cost of $42 Billion a year without changing a thing. The cost would be $420 Billion over 10 years as opposed to the Trillions and Trillions this thing is gonna cost us.

And then the other thing. So, 32 million are about to have insurance for the first time eh? Ummm, where are the doctors, nurses and technicians that will attend to these folks gonna come from?

This ain't a chicken in every pot, this is chicken excrement in every pot.

Wannabe...

I can't stand the little weisel. The Guv is gonna come through for us though. He said if Hood won't handle it, he'll pay for the law suit out of his own pocket