Friday, September 18, 2009
45,000 a year
According to the latest study, that is how many people die because of lack of health insurance.
Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.These 45,000 are also the people that the insurance companies couldn't care less about. Were they covered, they would be a major drain on the CEO's bonus.
"We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction ... than drunk driving and homicide combined," Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters
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