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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16029)4/3/2010 9:35:18 AM
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I think I can link to sources that show how that number is arrived at

I remember an extended discussion of that. Don't recall all the details but there are definitely no good numbers on that. I do vaguely recall two problems with the numbers offered. One is that the analysis in question counted everyone who was without insurance for even a brief period during a decade or so. The other is that no attempt was made to show causation. So if you were without health insurance because you were between jobs for two months ten years ago and you subsequently died in a plane crash, you were counted as having died due to your lack of insurance.

Those numbers make great slogans for the true believers but they're all bogus. There's just no way to get a number for deaths caused by lack of insurance. Or deaths that would not have occurred had people not had insurance, which also happens.
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