D Peter Maus wrote:

You missed the point....Agreeing with your statements above, the noise
is the claim that 47 millions Americans don't have health insurance and
that constitutes a crisis. The fact is, that there are those who don't
have it, and don't want it, rendering that 47 million figure a
misrepresentation of the actual issue under discussion.

Before you can say that, you have to provide the percentage of the 47
million that don't want it. 1 million? 46.5 million?

Would you care to provide an approximate figure of how many of the 47
million 'don't want it' or at least speculate?

Possibly you are splitting hairs or addressing the 'exception that
proves the rule'?

As a fact, medical care is -extremely- expensive and common sense would
dictate that a very large portion of those 47 million, given a choice,
-would- prefer to have health care insurance (you and your 3 friends
excepted of course).