'Junk Science' Expert Sounds Alarm on Insurance Study [those 45,000 deaths/year]

The Washington Times ^ | Sept 17, 2009 | Amanda Carpenter

[stockpirate]

If we had nationalized health care 450,000 would have died.

[Bigg Red]

When I taught HS biology, I tried at every opportunity to impress on my students what was required to design a good study or experiment.

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Same here.

[Aggie65]

GIGO, the new definition - Gargage in/gospel Out if it comes from a computer. People don’t understand the premise, or the program, just believe the output.

[TASMANIANRED]

They completely made up the statics for the number of deaths from back street abortions..

[The Comedian]

146,000 people die every day.

Causes range from second-hand smoke to being mauled by polar bears fleeing melting ice sheets, but can be attributed to one underlying cause: Lack of government supervision.

If you don't demand new taxes on yourself, and more government at every level, you are complicit in nearly 150,000 deaths every day, and you are a right wing extremist who is one step away from being Tim McVeigh.

You are also probably a homophobic brute. And a racist.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[brytlea]

Exactly. BTW I don’t believe your numbers. ;)

[brytlea]

I think if you don’t feel like that about kids you probably don’t last long in the business.

[brytlea]

LOL

[kitkat]

You can multiply the number of deaths by the uninsured by at least a thousand, and that will give you the number of deaths on the part of people waiting for a doctor’s appointment under the Obama so-called “health” plan.

[brytlea]

I don’t know if they ever really got it, but maybe at some time it will come back to them.

[paulycy]

I think if you don’t feel like that about kids you probably don’t last long in the business.

So true. And even if you do it seems like just about every teacher burns out in 15 years or less and only a few tough cookies who started teaching young make it through the burnout phase to continue teaching until retirement.

[Lancey Howard]

...a new study in the American Journal of Public Health claiming nearly 45,000 Americans die from a lack of health insurance.

Wow.
Anybody with an IQ above room temperature would have to laugh at this ridiculous claim.

[brytlea]

I would have taught longer if we had stayed in TX, but I don’t want to teach high school here in Palm Beach County. Of course, I was also older when I started teaching, had already raised my own kids.
Personally I think it would be great for schools if there were programs to get professionals from other walks of life into the classrooms for a few years and then out. They would not get burned out and they would bring real life experiences to the job.

[stubernx98]

Right, refer to Rule 1. Though I did spend 25 years testing CEOs, Directors, various professionals, politicians and government workers in both the public and private sectors, on their management style.

From observation i can say with 99.9% assurance that Obama is an “Influencer” that controls people(its what drives their ego) by lying. they are very skillful at it. Some of his other traits is that they look good (good hair) and are fun to have a beer with. Just don't work for one, as they are poor alligator's and want to control your every action.

[brytlea]

Interesting. I always find the psychology behind people to be fascinating.

[Soothesayer9]

I tend to think that particular event won’t happen for, oh..about 400 years from now.

Guess I’m an optimist. :P

[DaBeers]

It seems to me the only correlation made by this study would be: 40% of the people they polled from 1988 to 1994 died from taking another stupid poll.

[smokingfrog]

Junk science from a clunker president.