"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
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jps wrote:
If we were sustaining six deaths every day on the battlefield, it'd
cause us all pain. Why doesn't this?

According to a study released by the Harvard Medical School, 2,266
veterans under the age of 65 died last year as a result of not having
health insurance. Researchers emphasize that "that figure is more than
14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in
Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died (911 as
of Oct. 31) since the war began in 2001."

The 1.46 million working-age veterans that did not have health
insurance last year all experienced reduced access to care as a
consequence, leading to "six preventable deaths a day." Like other
uninsured Americans, most uninsured vets are working people
-- too poor to afford private coverage but not poor enough to qualify
for Medicaid or means-tested VA care," said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a
professor at Harvard Medical School. [...] Dr. David Himmelstein, the
co-author of the report and associate
professor of medicine at Harvard, commented, "On this Veterans Day we
should not only honor the nearly 500 soldiers who have died this year
in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the more than 2,200 veterans who
were killed by our broken health insurance system. That's six
preventable deaths a day."

The study's authors warn that the health care legislation "would do
virtually nothing for the uninsured until 2013" and would "leave at
least 17 million uninsured over the long run when reform kicks in,"
leaving many veterans still without care.

I am tired of hear that people have died because they are not recieving
health care. In every city in this country, a person in need of health
care can recieve health equal to anyone else. If they don't receive the
attention they needed they have not sought out the treatment.

Since this country was founded, Indigents automatically became the ward of
the government and were provided for. Over the years the concept of how
to provide this care has changed, but today ANYONE can go to a hospital
and recieve the best care available whether they pay for it or not. I
have never seen a patients hospital chart that said "indigent provide
reduced care".



Nope. You don't know much about the situation. They show up in ERs with
really serious conditions that didn't have to be serious if they had
regular, early care. They die. That's the problem.

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