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| Sat, 10-31-2009 - 10:30am |
Hospitalized Children Without Insurance Are More Likely to Die, a Study Finds
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http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/lacking-insurance-hospitalized-children-more-likely-to-die/?hpw
Uninsured children who wind up in the hospital are much more likely to die than children covered by either private or government insurance plans, according to one of the first studies to assess the impact of insurance coverage on hospitalized children.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center analyzed data from more than 23 million children’s hospitalizations in 37 states from 1988 to 2005. Compared with insured children, uninsured children faced a 60 percent increased risk of dying, the researchers found.
The authors estimated that at least 1,000 hospitalized children died each year simply because they lacked insurance, accounting for 16,787 of some 38,649 children’s deaths nationwide during the period analyzed.
Harvard Medical Study Links Lack of Insurance to 45,000 U.S. Deaths a Year
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As the White House and Congress continue debating how best to provide coverage to tens of millions of Americans currently without health insurance, a new study (PDF) is meant to offer a stark reminder of why lawmakers should continue to try. Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States — a toll that is greater than the number of people who die each year from kidney disease.



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You know my stand on the healthcare issue, but for a moment I'm going to question statistics. Last week's debate here on this topic made me realize that numbers without any
There's a link to a PDF file provided in the body of the article. Here I'll post the link......
http://pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-insurance-and-mortality-in-US-adults.pdf
See the graph on
I don't find the results at all surprising. People without insurance don't get medical coverage unless it's through an ER which, generally,
<<<"Let's not whine too much about me," he said. "I'm a wealthy, affluent American in the big picture." >>>
>"Holtz-Eakin said he's been paying about $1,000 a month to extend the private health insurance"<
He's amongst the fortunate that could afford $1,000 per month.
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Where Do Those Without Health Insurance Live?
http://open.salon.com/blog/christopher_di_spirito/2009/10/27/where_do_those_without_health_insurance_live
The New York Times and the Census Bureau sought to find out where do those without health insurance live? For the first time, in a survey taken last year and released in September, over all it found that 9.9 percent of children lack any health insurance, half the rate for adults under 65.
Children in Texas, a red state represented by two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, both of whom oppose the public option and the state with the most uninsured, are more than eight times as likely not to have it than children in Massachusetts, a state represented by two Democratic senators, John Kerry and the late Ted Kennedy, with the least number of uninsured.
Those who lack health insurance now are far more likely to live in states that usually vote Republican — the states whose senators and representatives are least likely to support healthcare reform and will undoubted choose to opt-out of a government run health insurance scheme. Denying heath insurance to the people they allegedly represent is a bedrock, conservative value.
In the healthcare debate currently underway, Democrats have generally supported plans aimed at assuring all Americans have some health insurance, while nearly all Republicans have opposed such efforts. If healthcare reform is successfully passed with the public option and includes the opt-out provision, I will enjoy the visage of Republican members of Congress struggle to explain to their uninsured constituents why they voted to deny them access to healthcare, all in the name of political ideology.
They explain it to them by telling them that they're voting against death panels and Nazism.
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