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Kasz216 on 31 July 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:

Hmmm...lets see....people want to talk about socialism and the ills it will bring.

We have a over 40 million collecting unemployment which means 15% of the country is not able to afford healthcare which is just terrible. 
The way things are going it's either mend it with socialist ideals until a remedy can be found or allow the corporations to figure out a fascist solution themselves. This is what lobbyists are for.

Not sure where you are getting 15% of the country from that...

Best i can find the number of uninsured is ~46 million.


Which is 6.8% of the country uninsured. (313 million)  

 

Of course that's not can't afford it either...

 

since around 14 Million people qualify for Medicaid or other government programs and just aren't enrolled.

 

10 Million are illegal aliens, which, you may or may not count.  If you don't that's... down to 22 Million.

 

That's down to 3.25% of Americans.

 

 

Edit: Or really this breaks it down more indepth with actual numbers.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-300985

 

 

Now if instead of affording health insurance you wan to make a specific minium level of healthcare you consider adequate... that could definitly get you up to that number.  To say they can't afford healthcare at all though isn't true.