Lack of universal health care is a mass killer

In my 20 years of practice as a family physician, I have encountered dozens of cases where the main contributing factor to a person’s death was the lack of health insurance for most of their lives. Full Story »

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Gordon Townsend
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by Gordon Townsend - Oct. 5, 2009

Another opinion that has the analytical rigor of a 10 year old. It is always important to remember biases - doctors sell medical services and drugs for a living - that's what their business entails. 200,000 people die in hospitals due to poor hygenie practices - that's 4 times the fictitious 45k - does that mean we need more or less people in hospitals? Insurance does not make healthy or unhealthy people - their personal lifestyle choices do that. Insurance just subsidizes payments costs to doctors. Could this be why they want everyone on insurance - just good biz for them. Med svs is a biz always follow the money.

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