Glen Beck's commentary at CNN today is excellent in many regards, but one issue in particular deserves to be looked at more closely: health care, and the 47 million people currently without health insurance in the United States. That sounds like a lot, because it is. But let's examine the numbers more closely, using the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau's report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States.

About 38% of them – over 17 million – live in households making $50,000 or more per year.

About 20% of them – almost 10 million – aren't citizens of this nation.

About 33% of them – roughly 16 million – are eligible for govt insurance but aren't enrolled yet.

So, 43 million of that 47 million – or about 91% -- either can afford insurance, aren't even citizens of our country, or are already able to GET health care assistance but haven't.

So more than 33 million of the 47 million uninsured – or almost 79% -- either could afford insurance and just don't get it, or are eligible for health care assistance but haven't bothered to sign up.

Only 9% -- about 4 million people – are U.S. citizens who cannot afford insurance and are not eligible for government insurance. That is barely more than 1% of the population. Of course it is sad that anyone goes without health care insurance, and we should find ways to fix even that low number; but it does not signal an actual crisis, and is certainly something entirely manageable within the existing health care structure of this nation. And by the way, the 47 million number? That's one million LESS than it was before, which is more than a 2% reduction. That's a drop equivalent to 25% of the total number of people – 4 million – who currently lack insurance and cannot afford it but who aren't eligible for government insurance. If all of those one million people were among that group, then there was a 20% decline in the rate of uninsured people from that group.

And we might also consider that many of those (nearly 9 million) without insurance are children – a point Democrats love to make but ignore the implication that the overall number of households and families without insurance is actually very low, and as already noted the majority of them in fact either can afford insurance but choose to do without it or they are eligible for government insurance but choose not to enroll.

So what, exactly, have the Democrats – and their nominee, Senator Obama – done about the supposed health care "crisis"? Nothing. Obama, in fact, skipped nine of the 15 Senate votes on health related measures during his tenure. NINE. He missed 60% of the votes. At least Hillary Clinton can claim to have actually done a lot of work to create a gigantic monstrosity of a health care proposal once in her life.

No, there is no health care crisis in America. It is merely another Democratic party scare-tactic based on a myth.