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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (3896)	1/16/2008 7:54:37 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

There are two reasons it's THE key variable. 1)Only a small portion of Americans, maybe five percent or so, don't have access to health care. Remember, not all Americans who don't have insurance don't have access to health care. Sure, that five percent likely has an impact on mortality stats, but that's not the same as being the "key" variable. 2)Yes, health care is terribly expensive, but for those who are insured, even with high deductibles, life and death conditions get treated. Foregoing care for life and death conditions because of cost would be a smallish factor. Seems to me that lifestyle is probably a bigger variable.