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OK, I lied...
Sep. 17th, 2009 05:28 pmBecause I can't in good conscience not spread this around:
Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
( Article text )
Dr. David Himmelstein, study co-author and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, remarked, "The Institute of Medicine, using older studies, estimated that one American dies every 30 minutes from lack of health insurance. Even this grim figure is an underestimate - now one dies every 12 minutes."
Is that a good enough reason for socialized insurance (single payer)?
If not, what the hell is?
Also, some items to think about:
( How about, now that bipartisanship on this really is dead, we scrap the whole system, look around the world at what works and start anew? )
Now, having read through all that (assuming you did), doesn't (an improved) Medicare for all sound like a better idea? All except plan D which needs to be reworked liek whoa. Drugs don't need to be as expensive (or as proliferate) as they are. Look at Cuba, which is virtually prescription free thanks to our embargo, and their citizens are healthier than US.
Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
( Article text )
Dr. David Himmelstein, study co-author and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, remarked, "The Institute of Medicine, using older studies, estimated that one American dies every 30 minutes from lack of health insurance. Even this grim figure is an underestimate - now one dies every 12 minutes."
Is that a good enough reason for socialized insurance (single payer)?
If not, what the hell is?
Also, some items to think about:
( How about, now that bipartisanship on this really is dead, we scrap the whole system, look around the world at what works and start anew? )
Now, having read through all that (assuming you did), doesn't (an improved) Medicare for all sound like a better idea? All except plan D which needs to be reworked liek whoa. Drugs don't need to be as expensive (or as proliferate) as they are. Look at Cuba, which is virtually prescription free thanks to our embargo, and their citizens are healthier than US.
