What If We Had Six 9/11 Attacks In One Year?

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What If We Had Six 9/11 Attacks In One Year?
By Desperado on September 5, 2009 5:23 PM | 12 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
Estimates are that approximately 18,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance, six times the number who died on September 11, 2001. Now ask yourself, if America suffered six terrorist attacks on the scope of 9/11 in one year, that's one every other month, what would be the response from the politicians in Washington, D.C.?Would they be saying we need to slow down and be sure we take the proper action? Would...

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1. A case could be made that someone should be fired.

At least it should be looked into.

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2. Have to disagree. It is not 6 times thw number of deaths through lack of

insurance...That would be like a 9/11 every two months.

No, what we have is is 101,000 deaths, almost 3 9/11s every single months. Over 33 9/11s per year through lack of access.
This study puts us 19th out of 19 in the number of preventable deaths. (or 1st? We have the most)

If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year, according to researchers writing in the journal Health Affairs.

Researchers Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they deemed could have been prevented by access to timely and effective health care, and ranked nations on how they did.
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Nolte said the large number of Americans who lack any type of health insurance -- about 47 million people in a country of about 300 million, according to U.S. government estimates -- probably was a key factor in the poor showing of the United States compared to other industrialized nations in the study.
"I wouldn't say it (the last-place ranking) is a condemnation, because I think health care in the U.S. is pretty good if you have access. But if you don't, I think that's the main problem, isn't it?" Nolte said in a telephone interview.

In establishing their rankings, the researchers considered deaths before age 75 from numerous causes, including heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, diabetes, certain bacterial infections and complications of common surgical procedures.

Such deaths accounted for 23 percent of overall deaths in men and 32 percent of deaths in women, the researchers said.

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3. We would have to bring back Dick Cheney to protect us.