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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.
How many people are flatly refused medical care?
one thing worth remembering: everyone dies
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 ?
Leaving off the question mark
(”How Many People Die From Lack of Health Insurance”)
inplies that many people do die for this reason.
How many people die even though they have health care?
How many people die from being unemployed ?
The Atlantic. I stopped there.
How many die with health insurance?
None.
How many are bankrupted by medical costs, even with insurance?
How many die because they don’t have a choice (the one’s being murdered) in abortion?
A bum dies in the street. Did he die because was uninsured? Did he die because of alcohol/drug abuse? Did he die because of a lack of adequate housing? Or did he die because he took no personal responsibility?
How many had better access to medical care in the United States before the government became so heavily involved in the market?
There wasn’t this wild clamor over health insurance until employers started offering it to their employees as a benefit. That fostered jealousy from those whose employers either didn’t offer insurance, or offered less than they were receiving. In short, it’s not really about health at all, but about, “HER health care is better than MY health care! Everyone should be equal! Waaaaaaa!”
The liberals — as is their custom — took advantage of this plaintive wailing from the “underinsured,” not to improve health care, but to have more control over our lives.
The lesson: Every time someone gripes about anything, the liberals see an opportunity.
how many people die from lack of health insurance??
the number is fractional compared to the amount of people who die at an early age because of things like stress or heart attacks because they work to much in order to pay taxes which are fed into entitlement programs which they get nothing from...
The possibility that no one risks death by going without health insurance may be startling, but some research supports it. Richard Kronick of the University of California at San Diego’s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, an adviser to the Clinton administration, recently published the results of what may be the largest and most comprehensive analysis yet done of the effect of insurance on mortality. He used a sample of more than 600,000, and controlled not only for the standard factors, but for how long the subjects went without insurance, whether their disease was particularly amenable to early intervention, and even whether they lived in a mobile home. In test after test, he found no significantly elevated risk of death among the uninsured.
Emphasis added. Highly telling that the left plays up deaths when their own studies say it's not so...
If you look at the stats for the number of people hospitals kill by giving patients the wrong meds or by performing unnecessary or improper procedures, its possible that more lives are saved than lost by being uninsured.
The problem is that the lack of health care insurance does not translate into lack of quality health care; ask anyone who works in an emergency room if lack of insurance equals lack of health care.
health insurance <> health