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Originally Posted by delphidb96
Free education? I hope you're talking university-level education here. Because education is a given, and government-paid-for, to every child between Kindergarten and 12th grade here in the US. Yes, parents *can* choose to pay for private schooling, but they don't have to.
As for medical, you'd be surprised how many people get government-funded health care as well as employer-paid health insurance. No, it's not total, but the percentage of Americans who don't get some form of free/insurance-covered health care isn't that high.
Derek
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LOL. I guess if count "numbers in the millions" as not high. From the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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According to the Census Bureau's 2005 Current Population Survey (CPS), there were 45.8 million uninsured individuals in 2004, or 15.7% of the civilian non-institutionalized population.
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