CNN has a fascinating post on a question I've pondered in this space in the past: How many Americans are truly uninsured?
The number the Obama administration and Democrats have used for more than a year now ranges between 40 million and 46 million -- at the upper end, that would be somewhere between 1 in 6 and 1 in 7 Americans.
A conservative think tank, the
Pacific Research Institute, has been floating a much lower number, 8 million, claiming others who are uninsured are either temporarily uninsured (between jobs, perhaps) or earn enough to purchase health insurance but choose not to. Obviously, as a conservative group, PRI would promote figures that would tend to underestimate the need for healthcare reform, because the so-called government option gets government into the healthcare business, and most conservatives oppose big government.
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