No Health Insurance, Higher Death Risk - 45,000 U.S. Deaths Per Year May Be Linked to Lack of Health Insurance »
Posted By ybdogsct 2 months, 1 week ago in Health & FitnessIf you doubt that lack of health insurance can have deadly consequences, consider these new findings: Americans without health insurance are 40% more likely to die than those with private insurance. As many as 44,789 Americans of working age die each year because they lack health insurance, more than the number who die annually from kidney disease.
That estimate appears in the advance online edition of the American Journal of Public Health. Data came from about 9,000 people aged 17 to 64 who took part in a government health survey between 1988 and 1994. They were followed through 2000.
"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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Beau78902 months, 1 week ago
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WOW.
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That 45,000 figure is 2-1/2 times what the previous estimate of people who die from lack of health insurance was.
And this figure is from a long-term study done at Harvard Medical School, reported in the American Journal of Public Health. -
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flyonthewallzz2 months, 1 week ago
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Hello my friends here:
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It may be inappropriate for me to speak about this..but the reason I have not been participating is that I am about to be sued for divorce. the stuff is happening way fast and I have been that coyote with his legs spinning on thin air way past the edge of the precipice since the 2nd of August.
One of the demands is that I continue to pay the $162 per week to cover her health insurance.
For what it is worth I have been a faithful husband who foolishly trusted his wife with all of the my earnings.
I am devastated!
This is probably not the type of thing I should share here, but maybe someone has been as foolish as I?-
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cowboygrandpa2 months, 1 week ago
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fly:
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My condolences.
Check with your state or lawyer to see if you must continue to insure her.
I paid for for ex until she got remarried six years later.
Man was I glad she got remarried. LOL
Best of luck to ya and may God watch over ya my friend.
Hang in there.
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fsev412 months, 1 week ago
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You have been missed fly. Good luck on the divorce. Sometimes it's good to share and although I can't speak from personal experience I have seen enough divorces close-up to know how devastating they can be. Please do come around at least once in awhile we need sane heads here.
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canadianrancher572 months, 1 week ago
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Nice to see you back fly, and sorry to hear about what is going on in your life. I hope that you have family close to lend whatever support they can in a difficult time such as this, my son is going through somewhat of a similiar situation but is been denied the right to see his daughter, he like you trusted his partner and now is suffering from the loss of her and his daughter. I told him to come home and work here until life settles down because he does need someone to discuss things with on a daily basis.
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Fly maybe this is a foolish thing to say but forget about the house and the savings and money and take the time to make use of family whether parents or children or even aunts, uncles and cousins or friends.
final comment fly- you are not foolish, and you're not alone, and if you have a really bad day just send a note my way , and I'll be glad to talk. I believe that even in the hardest of times and the worst of days there can be something to smile about.
Take care and hope to be hearing from you.
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Sageparadox2 months, 1 week ago
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I can witness to almost dying from lack of health insurance. A couple of years ago I developed a deadly lung disease. My employer at the the offered no health insurance. I survived about a year practically working on my death bed untill I finally recieved some insurance. Almost immediately I was rush to a E.R. from a health clinic. I had to do some good acting to pretend that I just started feeling this way or I would have gotten hit with a "precondition". Shortly I got put on disability and got a lung transplant.
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KISA452a2 months, 1 week ago
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Oddly, a study like this has to have numbers for 95% confidence intervals (remebmer the Iraq body count thing?). It is also essential to report the % of peole who were offered to partcipate and who actually did participate. Was there a difference in the # who did or did not have insurance?
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I realize this is not the actual study, but WebMD knows better and so should a harvard person. -
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CHAM2 months, 1 week ago
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It is not out of the question for that many to die for lack of medical care. I have been in the Drug Store and have seen people not fill a prescription because they had to make a choice between eating and buying the drug.
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And it is usually the older people who are faced with this problem. If a person uses many drugs, then the donut hole is a killer for people, even those who have significant income.
Doesn't it ever occur to people that if a Pharmacy will accept say $10 from the Insurance company as payment for a drug, and then charge those who don't have insurance upwards of a hundred or more dollars for the same drug or all those in the donut hole in the same manner, insurance or not, something must be wrong, because they, the Pharmacy is not settling with the Insurance Company for $10 for a drug that costs them more than that.
Someone is making a killing or should I say is causing a killing?-
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