You have health insurance, "There are 43,000,000 people in this country who have no health insurance at all.' . . . Why are you not in the group that DOESN'T have it?

Because, GUEST at 18 Sep 05 - 08:48 AM, I am retired, not necessarily by my own choice, but my wife works at the Seattle Public Library, and since, technically, she is a city employee, she—and her spouse, which is me—are covered by the City of Seattle employee group health insurance. I'm damned lucky this is the case because otherwise I would never be able to afford to pay health insurance premiums.

Of the 43,000,000 people in this benighted country who do not have health insurance, the vast majority of them are working, but their employers don't offer a health insurance program, and on what they're getting paid, they can afford the astronomical cost of the premiums.

I swear, some of you "compassionate (!) conservatives" really live in an ivory tower.

Don Firth