Study: 2,000 uninsured Kansans could die

[demtenjeep]

WASHINGTON — Without health insurance reform, 2,000 Kansans without coverage would die over the next decade, according to a nonpartisan health care advocacy group.

They would be among an estimated 275,000 people across the country between ages 25 and 64 and who have no insurance who would also die if Congress does nothing, according to an ongoing study by Families USA.

The study, Lives on the Line: The Deadly Consequences of Delaying Health Reform, reported last month that 5,200 uninsured people in Missouri in the same age bracket would die if health care reform fails.

In a conference call, Families USA executive director Ron Pollack said that failure to adopt health care reform could have "deadly consequences."

President Obama this week signaled a renewed effort to pass reform this spring. He again reached out for Republican support, but made clear that he intended to try to pass a bill however possible. Democrats in the House are now engaged in intense negotiations to try to paper over differences inside their caucus so they can line up behind a bill.

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http://www.kansas.com/2010/03/06/1212150/study-2000-uninsured-kansans-could.html

[glowing]

1. Wouldn't it just be wonderful to can the ins. companies who need to make a profit

by denying care and increasing premiums for a single payer, cradle to grave health care coverage?

[cornermouse]

2. They'll die anyway.

This bill will make no difference and have no meaning for them.

[demtenjeep]

3. Survival of the Fittest (or richest)

is sounding like their end game

[Mika]

4. August 6, 2001: Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the US. - n/t

[stray cat]

5. But we should let them die if there is a mandate in the bill or no public option?

[humpty dumpty]

6. Yes, 2,000 Kansans will die

I can guanantee that in the next decade 2,000 Kansans will die -- whether or not we have Health Care Reform.

[demtenjeep]

7. Wow

welcome to DU :eyes:

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[demtenjeep]

10. bwaha

good call

[indepat]

11. The US health-care-system, the only for-profit system in the advanced world and

ranking #37 in health care and 41st in maternal mortality, is so broken that possibly all the king's horses and all the king's men can not put it together in any humane manner in this obscenely obscene right-wing society wallowing in avarice, greed, and government of, by and for obscenely obscene profits to those handsomely profiting through denying/limiting health care. :P

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[demtenjeep]

15. Yes they do

they don't care about anyone but themselves

[MisterP]

12. that's why the insurers need to GO, not be fed tapayer dough in exchange for small concessions

or undergo "increased competition" with a public-option dumping ground (and even that's out of the picture now)

[eridani]

13. They'll die even with "reform"

Where does it say anywhere that insurance companies are required to honor claims?

[dysfunctional press]

16. do they know any of their names?

:shrug: