Centralizing health care under a government-controlled system management is shaping up to be a hotly contested issue in the 2008 Minnesota legislative session.  Liberal advocates of socialized medicine are trying to convince us that our health care system is broken. They claim that 47,000,000 Americans are without health care coverage.  But does their propaganda meet the smell test?

The Census Bureau has acknowledged their 2007 report stating that there are 47 million uninsured Americans is grossly overstated.  The fact is that 17,800,000 of that 47,000,000 used in the liberal argument are actually able to afford their own private coverage, but choose not to buy it for themselves.  Another 10 million of the 47 million are not citizens of the U.S.  Another 10 million do not work at all.  When you sort through all of the fuzzy math, at most there are 19 million people in America without health care coverage.  That's 7% of the total population.  What was the percentage of uninsured in 1987?