Health Care Myths Verses Reality

MICHELLE MALKIN: WE NEED A DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER FOR DEM'S FLAILING BILL TO TAKE OVER HEALTH CARE. IT'S CODE BLUE AND OBAMA'S PEOPLE ARE IN PANIC MODE.

AS CONGRESS---with its bullet-proof majority Houses--- rushes to shove us over the radical abyss of government controlled health care reform from cradle to grave, we learn that even President Obama doesn't know what's in the current 1018-page House bill (also called the Kennedy bill). If that's not bad enough, most of us have little idea all the ramifications it entails, except---and here's good news-- many of us both on the left and right are starting to get very queasy over what we sense is an unsustainable sky high price tag that will take this country towards long-term insolvency and bankruptcy.

Making matters worse, Obama is taking his PR machine and teleprompter on the road this week to hard sell this nebulous far-reaching plan to us, the American people. To do it, he must rely on myths and half-truths which he hopes we're too busy, preoccupied or relaxed to fact check and determine aren't real.
I'd like juxtapose some of the Obama administration's myths against hard reality that clearly disputes the president's claims:

MAIN MYTH: AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS IN CRISIS. IT'S BROKEN AND NEEDS A MAJOR FIX ONLY GOVERNMENT CAN REPAIR.

MAIN REALITY: It's simply not true and a straw man of unheralded proportions. After all the numbers are sifted, only 12 million (less than 4%) of a total US population of 305 million cannot afford insurance today. Another 20 million (6.5%)---mostly singles under 35---are without insurance who CAN afford it but won't buy it for various reasons. For this we need to nationalize 17% of our nation's $14 trillion economy and change the current care that 89% of us like?

Let's look at the numbers breakdown:

US population today: 305 million
Number and percentage with insurance: 258 million (85%)
Number happy with current health care plans: 271 million (or 89%!)

Number of uninsured: 47 million (15%)
Number of the 47 million uninsured who CAN afford insurance but won't buy: 20 million (6.5%)
Number of uninsured who can not afford insurance: 27 million (8.9%) mostly single, under 35
Number of uninsured ILLEGAL immigrants: 15 million (4.9%)

With these numbers confirmed, IBD concluded in a recent editorial:

When it's all whittled down, as few as 12 million of US citizens are unable to buy insurance — which is less than 4% of a population of 305 million.

For this we need to nationalize 17% of our nation's $14 trillion economy and change the current care that 89% like?

In the end, for Obama to be successful in getting this radical, socialistic bill through Congress, he will have to foist the false idea of a national crisis on the American people and we will have to buy it hook, line and sinker.

No thanks, I'm not biting.

Tomorrow, I'll take on the next myth Obama needs us to fall for. That includes the whopping 89% of all Americans who are happy with their health care plans and care.