Timothy Noah begins his review of Jonathan Cohn’s book on the history of American health care with an amusing piece of unintentional irony. After advising his readers that certain facts must be faced if health care is to be successfully reformed, he delivers himself of the following:
Reality 1: The current system is increasingly inaccessible to many poor and lower-middle-class people (about 47 million Americans lack health insurance, up from about 40 million in 2000) …
The irony here is that Noah’s first big “reality” is a long-ago-debunked myth. As I explain in this post, the assertion that health care is “inaccessible” to those without health insurance is nonsense. Indeed, a significant percentage of “the uninsured” are neither “poor” nor “lower-middle-class.”
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