Until last week, most estimates of the number of Americans who lack health care insurance stood at 41 million. Now that total must be adjusted upward, and sharply so. According to the latest Census Bureau data, the ranks of the uninsured climbed to 43.6 million in 2002, the largest increase in a decade. The numbers are as startling as they are shameful.
Providing health care to all Americans has long been a theme of political candidates. But the latest figures show how empty those promises have been.
It's easy to explain the sudden jump in the uninsured. Some 2.7 million workers have lost their jobs since George Bush became President. Those who had health …
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