Uninsured exaggerated

Liberals play the compassion card when quoting the 45 million without health insurance. They don’t mention this counts every American who was uninsured for any part of the year. Millions are counted in this way even if they are only uninsured for a week. Another 10 million are illegal aliens who should not even be in this country, let alone be provided free health care at taxpayer expense. Eighteen million more are aged 18-34 who choose to self-insure rather than pay for health insurance. Millions of the remaining 17 million are eligible for an existing program but are not signed up for it.

There are no statistics revealing how many millions chose to purchase cable television or new cars rather than purchase insurance. There are probably between 7 million and 15 million people who are uninsurable and who don’t qualify for existing coverage. Poor choices by many of these have led to health insurance being unaffordable for them. Irresponsible decision-making by these few should not be the driving factor for implementing another massive government program that will control one-sixth of the U.S. economy.

Liberals are skilled at exploiting statistics to advance their agenda.

Hal R. Dixon

Spokane