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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