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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (14107)3/8/2010 10:11:12 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
How is that responsive to "most studies are crap"?

I found the comment entirely too arbitrary to acknowledge directly but if you insist...

The study, which analyzed data from national surveys carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assessed death rates after taking into account education, income, and many other factors, including smoking, drinking, and obesity. It estimated that lack of health insurance causes 44,789 excess deaths annually.

Previous estimates from the IOM and others had put that figure near 18,000. The methods used in the current study were similar to those employed by the IOM in 2002, which in turn were based on a pioneering 1993 study of health insurance and mortality.

I did acknowledge implicitly the difficulty of making such a determination...but I don't think it's important that the number is 18K or 45K or some other figure...the evidence from multiple sources is strong and the condition unacceptable to have it dismissed arbitrarily as you do here.

What it does is make my point for me. It agrees that they have access but the health care to which they have access may not be affordable. Access vs affordability. I rest my case on the hyperbolic use of the word, "access."

I think what we may have here is a difference in ideologies. I think it's important to provide similar health care to all Americans...you don't seem to be bothered by the fact that many go without or get theirs through "unusual" and substandard means. Again, I really don't care to argue the literal meaning of the word "access"...to me it seems irrelevant to the bigger topic.

Al
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