[sportsfan1]

Most of the 40 million who are uninsured are young healthy folks who choose to take the risk and go without private health insurance. If the government is going to provide all of our "needs", then I think it should provide all my food as well. I need food more than healthcare. I also need clothes, do you know how many Americans can't afford decent clothes?

The government does have programs to try and help these kind of people, but again we are never going to be able to help everybody. Even with healthcare the government won't be able to help everybody. BTW The young people who chose to go without healthcare do so because of the enourmous expense that having healthcare brings. They do without healthcare so they can eat, but it should be easier for them to have both.