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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
and no not all 45 million. I'm stating that of that 45 million there is a good portion that doesn't bother to spend their money on things that they NEED as opposed to things that they WANT.
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What's a good portion, though? Until I see figures that tell me a vast majority (over 99%) simply don't care, I see a massive problem. Even if just 1% simply can't afford it, that's still 450,000 people out there that need help. That's half the population of San Jose. Imagine if it's 75%. That's 33.75m people.
I don't see any studies being done on those without health care, so it's really difficult to say. We both live in relatively high income areas (SF Bay Area and NYC, two of the highest in the country), so I'm sure we're not exposed to some of the more impoverished people out there who wouldn't be able to afford hundreds of dollars a month for health care.