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Originally Posted by Brujah
Cherry7 already posted the facts. Respond with facts.
According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States is the "only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage" (i.e. some kind of insurance).
The same Institute of Medicine report notes that "Lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States." while a 2009 Harvard study published in the American Journal of Public Health found a much higher figure of more than 44,800 excess deaths annually in the United States due to Americans lacking health insurance.
More broadly, the total number of people in the United States, whether insured or uninsured, who die because of lack of medical care was estimated in a 1997 analysis to be nearly 100,000 per year
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I do not have any reason to question these numbers...but this does not have anything to do with what I posted. People with money or good private insurance can receive preventative medical care which in most cases will prolong life...poor people receiving some type of government assistent can receive preventative medical care. People that are somewhere in between that and have not practiced preventative care...for whatever their reasons...can and do receive medical care via ER's and County Hospitals and Charitable Hospitals...people are not dying in the streets because they cannot receive medical care and that is a fact.