Stripping Americans of health insurance could be deadly: study according to : Reuters

For every 10,000 people who enrolled in the health insurance program, 13 lives were saved, the study found. "Being uninsured is deadly," co-author Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a Hunter College health policy professor, said in a phone interview. Based on findings from a variety of large studies, Americans without health insurance faced 40 percent higher odds of dying during the study periods than the privately insured, the report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found. "Even before this study, members of Congress – and the American public who elected them – already have a strong personal sense of the value of health insurance," he said in an email. It would be unethical to study the question by randomly insuring some Americans and not others.




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