First, health care reform is not a partisan issue. Who cares what past administrations did or did not do, the fact is that reform is needed. There are numerous reasons why people may not have health care coverage and they all don't fall into the "...go to school get a better job" category.
For example,
• Today, 47 million people in our country have no health coverage—including 8.7 million children—and these numbers are going up. In 2013, if we don’t change things, 56 million of us will be uninsured.
Retirees especially are losing employer-sponsored health care:
• Only half the employers who provided retiree health coverage in 2000 are still providing it
today—a 50 percent drop in seven years. (see link below for reference)

You can go to school, get the best of jobs, retire then lose the health care benefits you thought were guaranteed as part of your retirement package - just what happened this past week with GM retirees over age 65.

Are they supposed to go back to school and get a better job?

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/healthc...vey_aflciosite