Arguement #9 Around 5 Million, Not 46 Million Insured?

Arguement: Your liberal (or Progressive, Socialist - Collectivists all) friend, Lisa, says, "The other day you said something about it wasn't around 44 or so million without health insurance but 8 million. What did you mean by that? How can it be so little with so much concern about the problem? How could you say that President Obama was lieing about the figure? He's so nice and has such a warm smile!"
Your Arguement: "Lisa, Obama does flash a warm smile, and so does every successful con-man. You need to be a little more knowledgeable about the world. I started reading Sally Pipe's book, "The Top Ten Myths Of American Health Care." It was published in October, 2008, and the forward is by Steve Forbes, with an endorsement by Milton Friedman. It's a trustworthy book. Sally Pipe says that the official Obama website in 2007 stated that there were 47 million Americans uninsured currently. But like Obama's beaming smile, that's not all there is to it. It's not that simple. Here are the figures:
47 million uninsured
18 million of them make $50,000 a year and can afford health insurance.
10 million, at least, are not Americans
14 million of them qualify for Medicare, Medicaid, or SCHIP, but haven't got on
the programs.
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42 million of the 47 million uninsured then could have insurance or aren't
Americans
5 million Americans are left who may want health insurance but don't make
enough money to afford it. Remember none of these can be turned away
from emergency room so they are getting health care. You are right,
Lisa, what is the big problem? There isn't one. The Democrats are
simply crying wolf because they want to take over health care and
everything else and make us their slaves. The media is 96 percent
Democrat so they are going along too with some exceptions like Fox
News and The Wall Street Journal.

Also Lisa, did you hear that one of the four Democratic health care proposed bills says that all the taxes it mentions cannot be called taxes? Didn't the Democrats go far enough when President Bill Clinton said it depended upon what the word "is" is? Now the Democrats are saing that taxes are not taxes or what is, is not. These are sick people. The only place these sick people will lead us is to chaos and misery. Lisa, you don't need to become a Republican. Be an Independent. Even though I'm a Republican, I qualify it by saying I am an Ayn Rand, Conservative Republican. But get away from the Democrats. They are sick!
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.