Just buy them each some!

The CBO says the Kennedy plan will cost USD1 trillion and add only a net of 16 million people to the list of those with health care. It seems even with this plan, the CBO says the rest of the uninsured -- estimated at another 25 million -- will still be left out. Today the cost is reported to be USD1.6 trillion over ten years. Big numbers, to be sure. 1.6 trillion dollars divided by 160 million person-years looks like about 100,000 per person per year. For far less than that one can buy standard commercial policies for those people, and maybe even some of the others who won't have insurance. I wonder where the difference would go? More memorials to congresspeople and senators?

Your tax dollars at work.