In all the debate about who has health insurance, who does not, why he or she does or does not have health insurance- eGrumps submits the wrong question is being asked.
The basic issue is whether some are not getting adequate health care, not who has medical insurance or not, and if they are not, what can be done about it.
I believe the overwhelming majority of people are getting adequate health care under our present system, although that is not based upon any statistical analysis – assuming you can define what is “adequate” health care in the first place. People are not dying in the streets – people are not getting thrown out of emergency rooms. People are getting medical treatment, even if they can’t afford it, and may have to go into debt to pay for it – but I believe it is, in the main, available.
If the question is framed that way – not whether or not they have, or can get, health insurance – but whether they are, or not, getting “adequate” treatment, the solution is much easier to find without destroying America’s medical system. More clinics, anyone, for the less advantaged (to use a politically correct term). There are other things that can be done, but that’s far beyond the scope of this comment.
All I’m suggesting is that the debate should be refocused.
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