45 million and counting.(The Editor's Edge)(Health insurance )

ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT, 45 MILLION people is a big number. Yet, according to the most recent report from United States Census Bureau, this was how many people were without health insurance in 2003. And that staggering total was 1.4 million more than the previous year.

Actually, I think it does those individual lives included in the 45 million a disservice to lump them all together. It's very hard for most people to get their minds around 45 million of anything (except perhaps 45 million dollars) and so the tendency is to yawn, say yeah it's a big number and then shift you