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Now that Hillary Clinton has officially conceded her loss to Democratic nominee Barack Obama, many health care organizations, doctors, and struggling Americans are wondering what will happen to their dreams of a universal health insurance plan.

At the Washington Post, the argument takes on a moral tone, as the article suggests that class and racial divisions are the real barrier to change in the health insurance industry.

In effect, until it begins to impact the lives of the middle class, health insurance is "their problem" and not "our problem." Furthermore, the piece focuses on the Republican party as avoiding the topic because it's "not our voters, not our kind of solution and not our priority."

But today the crisis in coverage is effecting the middle class, as millions of Americans of all social and racial backgrounds struggle with rising costs for everything from health insurance, to food, to gas prices.

Worse yet, there's another 50 million Americans out there who are underinsured, and only one serious accident or illness away from financial trouble.

It's sad to think that we're the only industrialized nation in the world without a universal health care plan because we just don't care about poor and non-white people. Hopefully, after the elections of November we'll be able to demonstrate that this just isn't the case.

The 47 million uninsured Americans out there certainly hope so too.