Upscale wrote:
"Jack Stein" wrote in message
dollars? Now, add in the rest of the country and you don't need
much imagination to see that the 80-85% that are happy with their
current

I don't believe that 85% bull**** for one second, but just for the
sake of argument, let's assume it's true. The US has a population of
300 million. That leaves 45 million people that are unsatisfied with
your healthcare setup. That's a god awful lot of people who feel
they're not receiving adequate healthcare.

45 million. Use a little perspective will you?

The ~85% figure of people being "satisfied" with their health insurance (not
care) is correct. There have been at least three large surveys that all come
up with about the same figure.

Still, there's a difference between "feeling" the health care was inadequate
and not actually receiving proper health care. Probably that percentage of
folks are just malcontents who, upon receiving a free bar of gold, would
complain that it wasn't in a box. In other words, the patient's impression
is not the best metric for deciding "proper."

I might be hopping mad over a leg amputation, but medically it may have been
the proper treatment.