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The traditional Beltway logic on health care reform goes like this:

The problem is that 46 million Americans lack health insurance.  (I addressed why this number is incorrect and misleading last Thursday.)
Government should provide health insurance to those 46 million people, or at least pay for it.
Let’s expand a taxpayer-subsidized health insurance program to [...]

When discussing health insurance we frequently hear that there are “46 million uninsured” in America.  This figure is from a monthly survey of about 50,000 households done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau.  This Current Population Survey (CPS) then uses statistical techniques to paint a picture of the entire U.S. population.
Advocates [...]

This past weekend the President signed a short-term extension of a program that finances health insurance for children, called SCHIP:  the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.  We expect the Congress today will send the President H.R. 976, a bill that “reauthorizes” SCHIP for five years.  The President has said he will veto this bill, and [...]