American Health Care Kills More People

[marmar]

American Health Care Kills More People
Posted: June 21, 2012 at 6:42 am


Despite improvements in treatments for the sick and injured, discoveries of new and often more effective drugs, and more hospital facilities that claim to be state of the art, uninsured Americans have been victims of an increase in those who die prematurely. That may be an argument for universal health care, or it may be the result of a hard-to-detect flaw in the system that includes better treatment for the well-off than the poor.

A report from FamiliesUSA called “Dying for Coverage: The Deadly Consequences of Being Uninsured” shows that:

* Across the nation, 26,100 people between the ages of 25 and 64 died prematurely due to a lack of health coverage in 2010.
* Between 2005 and 2010, the number of people who died prematurely each year due to a lack of health coverage rose from 20,350 to 26,100.

It has been widely assumed that doctors and the medical community at large treat all patients equally well. But FamiliesUSA attributes the absence of universally fair treatment to the issue of insurance. The organization concedes that people without insurance pay more for medical treatment than the insured do. If anything, those who pay the most should be treated the best, if money is really an issue. ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://247wallst.com/2012/06/21/american-health-care-kills-more-people/#ixzz1yQpIPsQm

[kenny blankenship]

1. It often happens that those who can most afford to pay for something

are being subsidized by those who can least afford to pay for that thing. It pleases the rich to see it the other way round, of course, so that's the story we usually hear. However, businesses compete for the customer loyalty of the wealthy, for example they offer deals only the rich can take advantage of, usually on the premise that the wealthy will eventually order more expensive services over the course of their relationship, or that having them in their corner boosts their brand. And they make up what they lose currying favor with the rich on the wallets of the poor.

[spinbaby]

2. What is this hard-to-detect flaw?

It's not hard to detect, it's staring us in the face.

Idiots.

[Fumesucker]

4. It's hard to detect because so many people's incomes depend on not detecting it..

[snot]

3. (Where did Alan Grayson get his 40,000 figure?)