That's the whole point of the study,
"Uninsurance is associated with mortality.",
"Numerous investigators have found an association between uninsurance and death.",
"...Americans aged between 25 and 64
years die annually because of lack of health
insurance",
"Our objective
was to evaluate the relationship between
uninsurance and death."
Sure, the autopsy results aren't going to say "the cause of death was a lack of insurance", because that's not the physical cause for death. But the reason for that physical cause of death isn't fate, or chance (the study also took into account how many people from the sample had good health insurance and died from the same causes) It's all right there in the study.
This was the final conclusion, "Lack of health insurance is associated with
as many as 44789 deaths per year in the
United States, more than those caused by
kidney disease (n=42868). The increased
risk of death attributable to uninsurance
suggests that alternative measures of access
to medical care for the uninsured, such as
community health centers, do not provide the
protection of private health insurance. Despite
widespread acknowledgment that
enacting universal coverage would be life
saving, doing so remains politically thorny."
They do mention one limitation in the study however, these figures are only applicable to those who could not get health insurance, the figures would be higher if taking into account the effects of sporatic insurance (people who had health insurance that was taken away).
so, if you add in recision
THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY KILLS EVEN MORE THAN THE STUDY SAYS!!!
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by
guttermutt on
10/02/2009 02:27:04 AM EST
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