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How Many People Die From Lack of Health Insurance?
The Atlantic ^
| 02/11/2010
| Megan McCardle
Posted on 02/12/2010 8:17:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To balance what she said, here's what she says about those on the right, and then what she concludes :
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The right, meanwhile, shuns the subject like the plague. It will not do anyone's career any good to be attached to an argument that sounds like the health care equivalent of "let them eat cake".
So allow me, maybe, to be the first. I'm afraid I'm not confident about any number. All of these studies suffer from unobserved variable bias, which is to say, the uninsured are not like the rest of us. (The long term uninsured, I mean; the short term uninsured are not a large problem for society). There are all sorts of reasons that people end up uninsured, but most of them are correlated with much poorer health outcomes, and only some of them end up recorded in our surveys.
To: SeekAndFind
How many people are flatly refused medical care?
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:18:17 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
To: SeekAndFind
one thing worth remembering: everyone dies
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:18:24 AM PST
by
babble-on
To: SeekAndFind
Some questions :
1) How likely is it that the poor who are sick will die from lack of treatment
2) If you were poor in the USA and poor in say, Canada, who would likely get better treatment when sick ?
To: SeekAndFind
Leaving off the question mark
(”How Many People Die From Lack of Health Insurance”)
inplies that many people do die for this reason.
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:19:39 AM PST
by
Notwithstanding
(Wer glaubt ist nie allein. Who believes is never alone.)
To: SeekAndFind
How many people die even though they have health care?
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:20:20 AM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: babble-on
100% of people who went to a hospital at least once in their lives eventually died, despite any health regiment changes, medicine treatments, or surgeries tried.
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:21:07 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
To: SeekAndFind
How many people die from being unemployed ?
To: SeekAndFind
The Atlantic. I stopped there.
To: a fool in paradise
How many people are flatly refused medical care?
That's a good question, but let me extend the question further --- Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland in Canada, was able, by virtue of his wealth to get the best treatment in a US hospital. If one were poor in the USA, and he had Danny Williams, heart condition, will he be given the same medical treatment ? Or will he be refused ?
To: Nonstatist
How many people died from Communism in the 20th Century?
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:21:40 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
To: a fool in paradise
I would bet more people die from medical errors than not going in at all.
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:21:44 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: Nonstatist
How many people died in America from abortion since Roe v. Wade?
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:22:00 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
To: SeekAndFind
How many die with health insurance?
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:22:13 AM PST
by
depressed in 06
(Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:22:15 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:22:33 AM PST
by
sport
To: a fool in paradise
A. 50million dead
So it is NOT about number of people dead. This is about advancing socialism.
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:22:48 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
To: Man50D
“How many people die even though they have health care?”
All of them . . . eventually. For some strange reason it does not matter whether or not you have health care or health insurance. You die anyway.
Oh well.
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:23:13 AM PST
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: WakeUpAndVote
To: SeekAndFind
How many are bankrupted by medical costs, even with insurance?
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posted on
02/12/2010 8:26:12 AM PST
by
Wolfie
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