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45,000 deaths in US each year for lack of health insurance

By Eternity
Created 10/05/2009 - 20:09

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Deb Richter @ The Progressive - In my 20 years of practice as a family physician, I have encountered dozens of cases where the main contributing factor to a person’s death was the lack of health insurance for most of their lives.

 

The lack of universal health care is a mass killer in this country.

 

Nearly 45,000 deaths in the United States each year are attributable to the lack of health insurance, according to a Harvard University study released in September.  Read more [2].

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