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

To: Lane3 who wrote (8740)	8/27/2009 1:00:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

OT [I notice that "terrorist attack" isn't included. <g>] In addition to generally being low, its very unpredictable and variable. In 2001, the deaths from terrorism in the US would I think be higher than drowning or fire (other than the fires associated with terrorist attacks) but that year is (at least so far) a rather extreme outlier. Since then it wouldn't be a blip on the screen. If "since then" is normal and will continue for a long time then maybe its down there with "fireworks discharge" or even lower. If a terrorist nukes a city in 20 years, then it would still be well below heart disease or cancer, but it might be up there with suicide or falling (in the specific year it happened it would perhaps be the number on source of death, but even those most paranoid about terrorist nukes probably don't think it would be an every year occurrence). Heart disease, motor accidents, even shark attacks (which aren't on the chart, probably too small of factor), are more consistent and predictable. Edit - I used this link cdc.gov to get an idea of the general number of deaths in the US. I combined that with the previous chart and made quick rough calculations with a lot of rounding. I didn't look up precise death totals or deaths of different types for each year, or try to do anything with really great precession. It wasn't even a back of the envelope calculation, it was a quick in my head calculation.