I desperately want to see a thoroughgoing healthcare overhaul (patient safety, an end to pay-by-procedure, and the exaltation of primary care docs are the main planks in my platform). But I was nonetheless fascinated by the lead article in the June 29 IBD/Investors Business Daily—”Uninsured Figures Overhype the Lack of Health Coverage.” IBD points to several reasonable analyses that tally the involuntarily uninsured in the U.S.A. at about 20 million, or even less, rather than the “popular” 45 million+ stat. IBD is a conservative rag, to be sure, but this analysis points up the always obvious state of affairs: it’s a dead flat cinch, left or right, to “interpret” statistics about the same phenomenon in RADICALLY different ways.