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Cover the Unenthusiastic Uninsured  June 17, 2009  By Steven
Malanga   President Obama is attempting to build support for a
health care reform effort whose goals would be to restrain
medical costs and cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans.
The two goals are related, since government often winds up
paying subsidies to health providers like hospitals and clinics
who care for the uninsured.  But any government plan would have
to confront and overcome a troubling characteristic of the
uninsured that rarely gets discussed in reform debates: Many of
them, perhaps nearly half of the 47 million Americans without
coverage, earn enough to afford insurance, or qualify for
existing government health programs, but still remain without
coverage.  Why do they lack coverag