“If you can’t afford a doctor, but the census bureau stops describing you as uninsured, voila! Your problem is solved! And if you’re getting your wages garnished because you fell ill and had to be rushed to the emergency room but the census bureau puts you in a different category, voila! You problem is solved! … This is what we call a Kinsleyan gaffe: A mistake that reveals the truth. John McCain’s healthcare plan is, by the admission of his own advisers, not particularly interested in the problem of the uninsured. It doesn’t try and cover them or address their plight, and for a very simple reason: Conservatives in general are not interested in the problem of the uninsured.” [editor’s note: If only Mr. Klein could get beyond the obsession with “insuring” everyone, and address the real issue (how to remove the distortions of healthcare pricing … caused in large part by this obsession with “insuring” us all) … - SAT] (08/28/08)