What health care problem?

Poor Jay Bullock. Bullock, aka Folkbum, just spent a lot of time (although not as much as David Riemer or David Newby) outlining some ideas to improve health care in the US. And there are a couple of big-time proposals on the table at the Capitol, although the Republicans-in-charge don't seem ready to take up the issue. (No time. Gotta take care of guns, God and gays.)

Silly Folkbum. What a waste of time. Dave Diamond has discovered, via a "news" story in the Racine Journal Times, that there is no health care problem. Some of the gems from the story:

But is health care reform a serious political issue? At a time when the government is fighting terrorism and a war in Iraq, and the public is demanding lower and lower taxes, is expanded health care coverage a priority?

The answer, at least in Wisconsin, may be no....

...But the issue has yet to ignite in Wisconsin. While Illinois expanded health care coverage to all children and Massachusetts passed a plan to provide medical care to all state residents, Wisconsin's plans are locked in a Democrat-Republican stalemate....

But even health insurance and personal wealth don't guarantee quality health care. "I'm not poor, or I didn't think I was," Deb Siegel, of Kenosha, said at the hearing. It was the start of a talk about a series of events that left her and her husband, both successful, full-time workers for much of their lives, without insurance for a few months. In that time, her husband had a heart attack and required tens of thousands of dollars in medical care....

But for a majority of people, the health care system works. They have insurance and get coverage for themselves and their families when they need it. While the roughly 44 million Americans without health care coverage is a significant number, and millions more are feeling the cost of rising medical costs, they may not be significant enough to overhaul the multi-billionaire dollar insurance and health care industries.

While the numbers calling for a change may be rising, it's unclear if they are anywhere near creating a legitimate movement for actual change.

Well, 44 million is a start.