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 »
Posted by Chris Finnie
This piece is not crap. Its point is stated in the title - many people die early due to unavailability of universal health care. It refers to "a Harvard University study ... which appears in the American Journal of Public Health" and to a previous finding from the Institute of Medicine which provide documentation for the claim. The referenced study was easy to Google - here is the link: http://www.pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-insurance-and-mortality-in-US-adults.pdf The author, a medical doctor, asserts this figure is probably low, extrapolating based on her personal experience. Perhaps so but not exactly statistically valid!
