In another blow to the idea of universal health care coverage, states such as Washington are dropping plans to expand health insurance for kids.

Today, about 76,000 children are uninsured in Washington, or about the same amount as in 2002.  Story from Seattle Times.

Sounds like virtually no progress has been made toward insuring all the children. Doesn’t it?

If it is so difficult to insure the children, then how difficult is it going to be to insure the adults?  Will this become Washington’s (as in D.C.) latest excuse to print money?

One of these days, perhaps we’ll all face the reality that health care coverage simply is too expensive for society to undertake funding of for the populace.

Either that, or we’ll all go broke trying to pay for it.