The Great Uninsured
A meditation on the covereds and the uncovereds, and other things.
America has a new persecuted minority. The Great Unwashed have been replaced by the Great Uninsured. The word "uninsured" has taken on the freighted tonality of "unemployed," "deadbeat," "indigent," and even "homeless." The next time you hear someone confess to having no health coverage, check out the ever-so-slight pause in his listener's voice. Watch for the slow blink, the quick wiping clean of alarmed features back to bland American acceptance. We're good at this; nobody can do the pause-blink-wipe number like an American.
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