Dying for Coverage: the Deadly Consequences of Being Uninsured

[Bill USA]

introduction


Full Report

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<> 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 (Table 1).

<> Between 2005 and 2010, the total number of people who died prematurely due to a
lack of health coverage was 134,120 (Table 2).

<> Each and every state sees residents die prematurely due to a lack of health insurance.
In 2010, the number of premature deaths due to a lack of health coverage ranged
from 28 in Vermont to 3,164 in California (Table 3).

<> The five states with the most premature deaths due to uninsurance in 2010 were
California (3,164 deaths), Texas (2,955 deaths), Florida (2,272 deaths), New York (1,247
deaths), and Georgia (1,161 deaths) (Table 3).
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[mysuzuki2]

1. I saw this many, many times when I worked for Social Security.

I talked to a number of people over the years who had no access to basic healthcare such as high blood pressure pills or insulin who would develop serious heath problems ssuch as heart attack or stroke. For the lack of a few hundred dollars a year for routine office visits and medication, the taxpayers were then on the hook for thousends of dollars worth of hospital charges and a lifetime of disability payments. The phrase "penny wise and pound foolish" does not begin to describe the absurdity of this kind of system.

[Bill USA]

2. Thanks for your information. I hope you post your work experience re this issue on many places

on the web. The Repulblican Big Lie machine is at full power saying ACA will increase health care costs. With people getting insurance and preventative care, professionals in medical field and government know this will save massive amounts of money ...oh, and by the way ... lives (extended, vastly improved)... if that counts for anything (with the ignorati).

[midnight]

3. You know, I thought about the amount of life lost because the access to affordable health care has

become an accounting trick or deemed only necessary for those of status or wealth.... More people have die every year in this country from being uninsured than from 9-11 attack... Yet the focus is on revenge instead of health care...