CNBC Takes on the "45 Million"

As I have covered before, the oft-quoted figure of 45 million uninsured is a complete fabrication. Certainly one would expect a conservative blogger to explain this as we head into the muck of "health care" reform, but I never expected to see it on the Obama-worshipping Peacock Network.

So imagine my surprise as I sat in the doctor's lounge at lunch today and saw this report on CNBC:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1158405259&play=1

Fox Business has covered this as well. But Fox News covering this is no big surprise. (The links to the Fox videos are harder to get to. Go to www.foxbusiness.com/video/index.html and in the video search box [the one above the video list] type in "uninsured". From the resultant list watch the videos entitled "Is the Number of...." and "Study: 25-75% of....")

The important thing to note is that these reports, citing different studies and surveys, all reach the same conclusion -- the number of the truly uninsured is around 8-13 million. Not even close to 45 million.

In a semi-related video from last fall, a study by the Harvard School of Economics indicates that the overcrowding in our nation's emergency departments comes not from the unwashed sea of the uninsured but rather from the insured, most of whom are either seeking medical care at a time that they won't miss work or are trying to avoid paying an office co-pay. This video is on the Fox Business site, on the Uninsured search list, and is entitled "Uninsured not Res...."