Study Blames 17,000 Deaths On No Insurance (Children)

[goodboy]

Study Blames 17,000 Deaths On No Insurance
Lack Of Coverage Takes Toll Over Two Decades
Posted: 8:42 am EDT October 30, 2009
Updated: 8:45 am EDT October 30, 2009

Researchers said in a news release that a lack of health insurance might have contributed to the deaths of 17,000 hospitalized children in the U.S. over 20 years.
Johns Hopkins Children's Center doctors looked at 23 million hospital records from 37 states and compared death rates for children with insurance and those without.
Uninsured children in the study were 60 percent more likely to die in the hospital than those with insurance.
Researchers also compared cases of similar diseases; they found that the uninsured were still more likely to die.

http://www.wtov9.com/news/21474289/detail.html

This is a right to life issue, isn't it?

[barbtries]

1. you would think so

but you know the rw only cares about the lives of the pre-born. fuck 'em once they're breathing.

i'm going to go and put this study on my fb page and bookmark it to blog later.

[goodboy]

2. I posted this on fb too. Opposing health care reform is just more evidence

that they're only PRO-BIRTH.

[goodboy]

3. .

:kick:

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Those children obviously needed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

They can't expect society to do everything for them.

Sheesh!

:sarcasm:

[goodboy]

5. How many of them were trick-or-treaters? It's soshalist doctrunashun! !11 (nt)