I'll lay odds at least half of that 45 million are lazy halfwits! Ever been to one of those Renaissance fairs? That's all, many of those people do! They travel from one to the next. The only income they make are from donations and the dope they sell! Ever seen one of those Rainbow People campsites? They're professional campers!
Yeah, I'd say perhaps 30 million of 'em don't produce a damn thing for society!
That 45 million number is highly creative accounting on the part of the communists. The way they come up with that large a number is to account every single individual who did not have health insurance for any portion of that year as not having health insurance at all for that year. Did you change a job last year and have a short period of time when you were changing over to new insurance where you might not have been covered? You count for the whole year. Do you work and not take health insurance from your company because you are covered by a spouses policy? According to the communists, you don't have insurance. They do the same thing for kids.
Further, illegal aliens are counted in the numbers, even though they are not a primary responsibility to the United States taxpayer.
Further, they don't adjust for whether or not the lack of health insurance is a choice. A twenty-something may decide that they would rather have the new car rather than health insurance, and that might be the best deal for them. Nonetheless, they are counted as uninsured.
An honest assessment would show that chronically uninsured American citizens are not a really a very large number.
