No health coverage tied to 45,000 deaths a year – Health care- msnbc.com
Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.
“We’re losing more Americans every day because of inaction … than drunk driving and homicide combined,” Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters.
Overall, researchers said American adults age 64 and younger who lack health insurance have a 40 percent higher risk of death than those who have coverage.
Think about that: Every 12 minutes, someone is dying because they do not have medical coverage.
Every. Twelve. Minutes.
Still think America has the #1 healthcare system there ever was?
Every 12 minutes that goes by with a congressman/woman saying “we need more time to work on this reform thing” — they are indirectly consigning another American citizen to death. It’s sickening.
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Lack of medical care is murder
No health coverage tied to 45,000 deaths a year – Health care- msnbc.com
Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.
“We’re losing more Americans every day because of inaction … than drunk driving and homicide combined,” Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters.
Overall, researchers said American adults age 64 and younger who lack health insurance have a 40 percent higher risk of death than those who have coverage.
Think about that: Every 12 minutes, someone is dying because they do not have medical coverage.
Every. Twelve. Minutes.
Still think America has the #1 healthcare system there ever was?
Every 12 minutes that goes by with a congressman/woman saying “we need more time to work on this reform thing” — they are indirectly consigning another American citizen to death. It’s sickening.
About Becca
Owner and proprietor of this here establishment