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The Sushi Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:16 PM Original message |
45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health insurance: study |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. 100,000 dead per year |
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New Dawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. K&R |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. How many of those deaths |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. They are only the Little People, so who cares? Yawn. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. US lack of healthcare=Death Panels. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
40. Health insurance companies = death panels |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. Collateral damage, we have the best health care system in the world. nt |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
6. So every 15 months the current Soylent Green inspired for profit |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. So more than fifteen 9-11s every year. |
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Qutzupalotl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
43. Just don't make an ad depicting that angle |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
8. K&R |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. Yeah, but were any of them fetuses? THEN we might get the righties |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
10. bin Ladin is a mere piker. This is real terrorism. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. It would be interesting to know how many premature deaths are the result of being under insured |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. Med Mistakes Blamed in 200K Deaths a Year |
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Rozlee (821 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. The Republicans know how to use fear as a weapon |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #13 |
41. I know, I ask that question all the time |
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dr_aswan (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
14. 440,000 deaths per year are attributed to smoking... sad but true |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Ahhh...so that makes the 100,000/year deaths from lack of healthcare ok then. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 02:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
42. what does that have to do with the subejct at hand? |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. k/r |
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snake in the grass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. saved for later |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. AND they SAY they are pro LIFE - ha - BS n/t |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. Those 100,000/year Americans weren't worth it, anyways. |
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ScottLand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 05:07 AM Response to Original message |
21. If it were 10,000 or 5,000, it's still a pathetic truth |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
22. That's in the same order of magnitude as drunk driving deaths. |
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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
23. (Harvard) Study finds lack of insurance can be lethal |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I'm not surprised the number has jumped so much since the earlier study. |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Nice of Harvard to join the real world. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. (Skittles) Study finds that clouds and thunder can mean rain |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. News just in: WATER IS WET! |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #27 |
35. My study indicates that water can cause death. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #27 |
37. LINCOLN SHOT! |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. I really have to differ with the whole premise of this study... |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Steffi Woolhandler was in on this, again, and... |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. A little thought experiment could clear this all up... imho. |
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Beavker (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. It is sort of stating the obvious, but to some...it's not that obvious. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. What? Are they issuing Master of the Obvious degrees now? |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. LOL |
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durablend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. No doubt making the right and the DINO$$$$ happy |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Gee ...it took a Harvard study to figure that out for us? DOH! A grade school student ... |
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Indigent (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
38. this, not ACORN, should be top story in the media n/t |
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Indigent (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
39. Can the Boston Globe tell it like it is? The study found lack of insurance IS lethal. Not "can be" |
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