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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (14093)3/7/2010 8:16:53 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
if your risk of death this year is .05% and you lose your insurance, your risk increases to .07%.

Yes, that's the basic idea.

Among the "uninsured working age Americans" there will be a significantly higher proportion of people whose lifestyle is not very healthy - alcoholics, drug users etc. NOT all uninsured have these problems, but a higher proportion. Maybe enough to account for most of the discrepancy in mortality.
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