|
|
June 27, 2007
"And the Survey Said..."
Ah, the Family Feud: It's not just for morning television anymore. No, the feud over the uninsured, about which that great family Americana has been squabbling for years, yet again lights up, so to speak, the pages of the New York Times (June 26): "Survey Finds 43.6 Million Uninsured in U.S."
This is an estimate "based on those who did not have [health] insurance at the time of the interview." Well, for how long were they without coverage? How many actually were denied health care? Was the absence of coverage the result of forces beyond their control, or was it a matter of choice? Did the absence of coverage yield adverse health outcomes? What are the prospective implications of "covering" everyone? And so on. Needless to say, the newspaper of record did not find such nitpicking fit to print, or, for that matter, fit even to contemplate. I heard that another survey found that 294 million Americans subsist without subscriptions to the New York Times. Oh the humanity.
Posted by Benjamin Zycher at June 27, 2007 05:21 PM
|
|
