Friday, October 2, 2009

Republican Death Panels

The NYT today published, the full story of the Harvard study that says 45,000 Americans die each year because they don't have health insurance. Here is one graf:

The Harvard study found that people without health insurance had a 40 percent higher risk of death than those with private health insurance — as a result of being unable to obtain necessary medical care. The risk appears to have increased since 1993, when a similar study found the risk of death was 25 percent greater for the


The piece includes a link to a PDF of the study.

I have a label for Republicans in Congress blocking Obama's health care reform: DEATH PANELS.
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