How do people who strongly voice against health care reform get health insurance coverage?
They are covered, as most people are, through their place of employment or through Medicare. What many of them fail to appreciate is the precariousness of relying on employment to cover medical insurance. Continuing one’s coverage after losing a job is expensive. The figure of 47 million uninsured really underestimates the problem. That’s just the number of people who are currently uninsured; the number of people who have been or will be uninsured at some point in their lives is far greater. If people understood it in those terms we might better come to grasp with the foolishness of tying health insurance to employment.
