Maybe not all is as good with health insurance as a lot of people would like you to believe. Some of this angry opposition is just plain, old-fashioned opposition to pretty much anything that President Obama is going to bring to the table. This story is based on research from Harvard Medical School.
Check out this story posted by Yahoo News:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – 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.
The findings come amid a fierce debate over Democrats’ efforts to reform the nation’s $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare industry by expanding coverage and reducing healthcare costs.
Here is the rest of the story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090917/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths
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