RE: Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
January 24, 2017 at 8:04 pm
(January 24, 2017 at 7:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I disagree with Cato on a lot of things, but I have to go with him on this. The only way to authoritatively state that removing this insurance programme will kill 43 000 people per year would be to show proof that it has saved the lives of a comparable number, that is, people you can definitively demonstrate would have died without this insurance. If that were the case, one would think Mrs. Clinton would have been shouting it from the rooftops all throughout the campaign.
Don't get me wrong, though - this is NOT meant to be taken as support for insurance repeal, nor is it intended as a condemnation of government-provided (or at least sponsored) health care.
Boru
Sometimes you have to click on the link within the story if you want to get the backup.
http://www.pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-...adults.pdf
Quote:Conclusions.
Uninsurance is associated with mortality. The strength of that
association appears similar to that from a study that evaluated data from the
mid-1980s, despite changes in medical therapeutics and the demography of the
uninsured since that time. (
Am J Public Health.
2009;99:2289–2295. doi:10.2105/
AJPH.2008.157685)
The American Journal of Public Health is not Breitbart....or FUX News.
