The American Journal of Public Health is a subscription-only service. Physics.org reported:
Lead author Dr. Andrew Wilper, who worked at Harvard Medical School when the study was done and who now teaches at the University of Washington Medical School, said, "The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors and baseline health. We doctors have many new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes and heart disease - but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications."
The study, which analyzed data from national surveys carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assessed death rates after taking education, income and many other factors including smoking, drinking and obesity into account. 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.
3 comments:
No doubt we have so many dieing for lack of insurance and even some insuraned don't get the care they need since the insurance companies scrutinize to save money.
Really the Gerbil years have taken this strong country, and just about turned it into a third world country, where they just about wiped out the middle class (2 class in 3rd world) lack of good health care....this is a new country, as compared to others, let's remember why so many left "the old country" so they would have a chance for a better life.
What most folks don't understand is that the money [which is taxpayers money] used for the two wars passed By Congress and Senate is really our healthcare money down the drain. As you know, majority of the money used in the two wars are still unaccounted and wasted.
David Walker, former GAO, warned in 2008 in a 2008 report that healthcare is in trouble and needed to be fixed. It is too late to change the past under the Gerbil/Dick Administration and we can change the future.
And didn't Bush threaten Walker with violating the Hatch Act if he didn't shut up and quit sounding the warning this economic collapse would happen also? Or was that another GAO guy? Since when is doing your job a violation of the Hatch Act LOL
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