Obamacare

I guess I still don't get it. Do we really need this? Don't we already have free health care for children(badger care), seniors(medicare), disabled(disability), lazy people(badger care plus)? Now lets do the math here. Government claims 46 million people in the U.S. have no health insurance. Here's the break down. 12 million people are eligible for Medicaid and state children’s health insurance programs, but haven’t enrolled. This includes 64% of all uninsured children and 29% of parents with children. Since these people would be enrolled in those programs automatically if they went to the hospital for care, calling them uninsured is really a smokescreen. Another 10 million uninsured “Americans” are not Americans. Approximately 5.6 million are illegal immigrants and another 4.4 million are legal immigrants but not citizens. Nor are the uninsured necessarily poor. A new study by June O’Neill, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, found that 43% of the uninsured have incomes higher than 250% of the poverty level ($55,125 for a family of four). And slightly more than a third have incomes in excess of $66,000. A second study, by Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania and Kate Bundorf of Stanford, concluded that nearly three-quarters of the uninsured could afford coverage but chose not to purchase it. Excerts taken from Michael D. Tanner(50 million uninsured Americans?)