I've gone over the numbers more than once. The vast majority of people in this country are well cared for, and like their programs. The elderly are covered by government insurance. The poor are covered by state and federal government insurance.

We are told there are 46 million uninsured in the U.S. as of 2007, about 15 percent of the population. That number is misleading. For example, 21 percent of that 46 million are non-citizens. 20 percent of that 46 million make more than $70,000 a year (39 percent if you set the bar at more than $50,000 a yea)r. There may be some overlap between the high income categories and non-citizen categories, but I'd bet not much.

The actual statistic is "without insurance for at least part of the year." The Census Bureau say that the "CPS estimate of the number of people without health insurance more closely approximates the number of people who are uninsured at a specific point in time during the year than the number of people uninsured for the entire year." More here.

Keep in mind we're talking "uninsured," not "can't get any medical care." So, when it comes down to it, how many people are there that are in such dire straits that we have to reconstruct the entire system to get at them? Assuming that even worked?

But hey, let's skip all that nasty information.

We'll just leave it at 15 percent for the sake of argument. That still leaves 85 percent of the population that the current system is working for.

That doesn't mean the 15 percent should be forgotten, but it doesn't mean the system is a "trainwreck" either.

Obama and the Democrats are trying to shoot something through as fast as they can. Ignorance is their ally, and the more time people have to think about and study the issue, the less chance they've got.