http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id653-black-coffee-my-favorite-blogs-money-news-and-opinions-4.html The off-beat personal finance blog for responsible people Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:27:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id653-black-coffee-my-favorite-blogs-money-news-and-opinions-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-1151 The bloggers’ Townhall meeting on Health Care Reform | U.S. Common Sense Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:25:26 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=653#comment-1151 [...] Len Penzo says, “America’s own version of the old Soviet rag Pravda, The New York Times, echoes the Obamunists’ stated goal of Universal Health Care, saying that it will “broadly expand health coverage to the more than 40 million Americans without insurance.” Of course, this widely quoted, but dubious, figure seems to overlook an inconvenient truth: there are millions of people that really should be excluded from the tally like illegal aliens, and Americans that can afford their own insurance but choose not to have it. When taking that into account, the number of uninsured drops dramatically.” [...] [...] Len Penzo says, “America’s own version of the old Soviet rag Pravda, The New York Times, echoes the Obamunists’ stated goal of Universal Health Care, saying that it will “broadly expand health coverage to the more than 40 million Americans without insurance.” Of course, this widely quoted, but dubious, figure seems to overlook an inconvenient truth: there are millions of people that really should be excluded from the tally like illegal aliens, and Americans that can afford their own insurance but choose not to have it. When taking that into account, the number of uninsured drops dramatically.” [...]

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