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he should speak with Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H. about the numbers he is quoting.

"This bill will help save the lives of the nearly 45,000 Americans who die every year because they do not have health insurance,” Congressman Grayson said..."


http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/september/harvard_study_finds_.php


Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
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Lack of health insurance now more lethal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 17, 2009

Contacts:
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
David Himmelstein, M.D.
Andrew P. Wilper, M.D., M.P.H.
Mark Almberg, Physicians for a National Health Program, [phone], [e-mail]
David Lerner or Karmen Ross, Riptide Communications, [phone]