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Last week's article on why 45 million Americans go without health care insurance touched a nerve and generated many questions and assertions:
"You and your pesky statistics! Forty-five million Americans without health care is huge. And you wrote that 89 percent of the 85 percent of people with health insurance are satisfied. That means 25 percent of all Americans are unsatisfied!"
Elder: Those "pesky" statistics become especially pesky when misstated. I wrote that 45 million Americans have no health insurance, leaving 85 percent with health insurance -- but not without health care. ERs must treat the uninsured, including...
'45 Million Americans' -- Who Are Those Guys? Part 2
Who determines when a homeless person has received adequate care?
Are we to give illegal alliens all the health care they need?
Are we going to deny certain kinds of care to people who doctors say are dying or pay anything to keep people alive?
Do politicians have to have the same care as everyone else?
Do we pay for every abortion for any reason?
Do we pay for accupuncture or other healing procedures regardless of effectiveness?