One of the arguments incessantly put forth by the Left for still more government is that there is a terrible crisis in health care for “the uninsured.” They have been made it into an official “week” now. (If they could have made it “Cover the Uninsured Month” I’m sure they would have done so.)
A real crisis, or just another of those hobgoblins H.L Mencken talked about — the kind that people invent when they want us to clamor for government action? It’s clearly the latter, as you can read here.
The mental leap that the “Cover the Uninsured” zealots want us to make is to jump from the fact that some number of Americans at some point do not have insurance coverage to the conclusion that large numbers of people are suffering for want to medical care. But the truth is that very few people go without medical care they need in the US.
