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

Most "don't want it" for the same reason I don't want a Rolls Royce
(too expensive). And then there are young people who think they're
going to stay healthy and live forever. But when they're on death's
door, they will go to the emergency room and the rest of us will pick
up the tab.

The number of Americans who truly don't want health insurance is very
small. Lack of access to health care IS a crisis for those who have
lost jobs, or whose employers don't offer coverage.

Every other industrial nation has some form of universal health care
for their citizens. Sooner or later the US will too.

Art Harris