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Monday, February 02, 2004

Understanding the uninsured

[Sally Pipes, "Health Care and the Uninsured," Tech Central Station, 30 January 2004.]

The crisis of the uninsured turns out to be not much of a crisis at all. As Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute points out in this article, the uninsured are not necessarily not receiving health care, may be uninsured by choice, and do include many with substantial incomes.

[W]hat no politician can offer short of instituting compulsory, government monopoly health insurance -- is a total solution to the problem of the uninsured. For some, going without health insurance is simply a rational choice.

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