>>677397I said it tongue in cheek.
The poor are completely covered. There is a cohort of middle class Americans without coverage. It totals about 8-9 million people.
The other 39 million "uninsured Americans" are not suffering.
A significant number of the uninsured are already covered by programs like Medicare, Medicaid or SCHIP and opt out; They are the "young invincibles" aged 18-30 who choose to spend their money elsewhere or they make over 75,000 a year and simply refuse to buy insurance.