Hank: An Affordable Path to Health Care Reform
As we move forward with the health care debate, we’re bombarded by a constant rhetoric stream, and it appears we’re in a headlong rush to do something, simply for the sake of doing it! So let’s slow down and find a no-nonsense approach to the problem.
First of all, let’s start with the numbers. We continually hear the 47 million number thrown around. When we take out those who earn more than $50,000, unenrolled Medicaid-eligibles, illegal aliens, and the short term uninsured (4 months or less), that number drops down to somewhere around 7-8 million. We can argue about the specific number all day long, but that would be like teaching the proverbial pig to sing. The fact remains there are millions of Americans chronically uninsured. So how do we fix it? (more…)
