"Just yesterday, Harvard Medical School released a study that shows nearly 45,000 people in the United States die each year because they don't have health insurance. [1]
This staggering statistic is worse than we thought -- nearly double previously reported numbers and greater than the number of deaths from drunk driving and homicide combined.
With new reports coming out every day about insurance companies trying to increase their profits by dropping patients after they get seriously ill and classifying cesarean sections and experiencing domestic violence as "pre-existing conditions," these devastating numbers are bound to grow unless we act. [2]
As a nation, we fail to fulfill our moral duty to love our neighbors, heal the sick and protect the vulnerable if we tolerate a system that kills so many of our brothers and sisters and leaves millions more in danger of dying preventable deaths.
Our current system is failing badly, and we need to get the word out."
Tom
Full article is at http://faithinpubliclife.org/content/news/2009/09/study_links_45000_us_deaths_to.html
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