Deaths Rising Due to Lack of Insurance, Study Finds (NY Slimes ObamaSCare Propaganda Barf)

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/deaths-rising-due-to-lack-of-insurance-study-finds/ ^ | MICHELLE ANDREWS

[Free ThinkerNY]

As members of the Obama administration and Congress met on Thursday to try to find common ground on health care, a new report warned that without comprehensive legislation more than 275,000 adults nationwide will die over the next decade due to a lack of health insurance. Nearly 14,000 of those deaths would occur in the state of New York.

An earlier study by the Institute of Medicine estimated that 18,000 people died prematurely in 2000 because they lacked insurance; the Urban Institute updated that figure to 22,000 in 2006. The new study, by liberal advocacy group Families USA, applied the same methodology used in the previous reports to drill down and calculate, on both a national and state-by-state basis, the latest figures.

“This is only the tip of the iceberg, and the most severe consequence, which is death,” said Kathleen Stoll, director of health policy at Families USA. In addition, thousands of other citizens, perhaps millions, are experiencing a reduction in the quality of their lives and their health because they lack insurance, she said.

Not surprisingly, many of the states with the largest number of projected premature deaths also have the largest populations. The top 12 states, in rank order of estimated premature deaths, are: California (34,600), Texas (31,700), Florida (25,400), New York (13,900), Georgia (11,500), North Carolina (9,600), Illinois (9,400), Ohio (8,900), Louisiana (7,700), Michigan (7,600), Pennsylvania (7,500) and Tennessee (7,500).

In 2008, roughly 46 million people in the United States lacked health insurance, according to the Census Bureau. The new report estimates that currently 68 adults under age 65 die every day because they don’t have coverage. Absent a significant change in coverage, the figure will climb to 84 by 2019, the study projects.

[pnh102]

So eventually 100% of people alive will have insurance. :)

[remaxagnt]

libs should be happy arent they advocating population reduction???????

[poobear]

“libs should be happy arent they advocating population reduction???????”

Yes, they just want to be the selectors and hurry it along while financing the deficit.

[combat_boots]

No. Many insurance plans have already implemented pro-Soros/0bama/Reid/Pelosi/Emmanuel/Axelrod/Sibelius Deathcare benefits:

[gthog61]

So my takeaway from this is by delaying implem,entation for at least 4 years the dems are willing to kill about half these people to save obama’s political hide going into the next election.

[Lazamataz]

As members of the Obama administration and Congress met on Thursday to try to find common ground on health care, a new report warned that without comprehensive legislation more than 275,000 adults nationwide will die over the next decade due to a lack of health insurance.

Not NEARLY scary enough, New York Times! Why, if you increase the time frame by 100, you could have written THIS: ".....a new report warned that without comprehensive legislation more than 27,500,000 adults nationwide will die over the next millenium due to a lack of health insurance...."

See how much better this propaganda reads than yours?

[PilotDave]

“more than 275,000 adults nationwide will die over the next decade due to a lack of health insurance”

Will that be listed under cause of death on the death cert?

[kara37]

This is a losing argument. 92% of the people have health insurance. They are not going to get 92% to give up their health care, so 8% can get free insurance.

[sodpoodle]

This illustrates precisely what the Socialists want to acheive through this legislation.

Collection, control and disbursement of health insurance premiums in the form of taxes.

*Health care reform* is double-speak for confiscating all the commerce associated with supply and demand for health services, in physicians’ offices, clinics, labs and hospitals.

[ravingnutter]

275,000 adults nationwide will die over the next decade due to a lack of health insurance being too stupid and lazy to go to a local free health clinic.

There, I fixed it.

[thouworm]

and that’s just for starters....

John Holdren (He’s baaack!!)

Hidden Healthcare Reform Objective: Feds Want to Know Your Number
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459853/posts

[Leisler]

Mortality rate approaches 100%

[God luvs America]

Is this not an improvement? Didn”t they say not long ago 45k died per year because of no health insurance? Now they are averaging 27k moving forward according to the article...

[dearolddad]

So eventually 100% of people alive will have insurance. :)

So does this mean that if 100% of people have insurance nobody will die?

[GailA]

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/ OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS

Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459586/posts

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm

Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.