Michael L. Millenson: “Those of us with insurance simply don’t care very much about those without it. It’s only when health care costs spike sharply, the economy totters or private employers begin to cut back on benefits that the lack of universal health care comes into focus.”
"Most of us give about as much thought to those who lack health coverage as we do to soybean subsidies"
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