Health Insurance Crisis May Be Overblown

What health insurance “crisis”? New stats are out today showing the number of U.S. residents without health coverage actually declined last year. More importantly: Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis here, points out that nearly 85 percent of U.S. residents are either privately insured or enrolled in a government health program; nearly 18 million of the uninsured live in households where the annual income exceeds $50,000; and as many as 14 million of the uninsured actually qualified for government programs–but failed to enroll in them. Just don’t count on hearing much of this from the podium in Denver this week.