Posted on 09/18/2009 1:50:52 PM PDT by bamahead
Trying to boost the rationale for ObamaCare, Thursday's CBS Evening News ran two stories from far-left sources, but the network disguised the agenda behind both. Katie Couric announced that “while the debate goes on over the cost of insuring everyone, a new study reveals the cost of not doing it. The Harvard study says nearly 45,000 American deaths every year are linked to a lack of insurance.” Neither she, nor reporter Jim Axelrod, noted that the report was really produced by Physicians for a National Health Program, “the only national physician organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to implementing a single-payer national health program.”
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In the first story, with the numbers on screen credited to “Harvard Medical School” and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler identified on screen as with “Harvard Medical School,” Axelrod reported Woolhandler “was part of a team that tracked more than 9,000 people for up to 13 years, comparing the health of those with insurance to those without. After factoring in education and income, smoking, drinking, obesity, researchers found the uninsured had about a 40 percent higher risk of death. In 1993, it was 25 percent.”
Woolhandler is one of five signers of an “Open Letter to President Obama to Support Single-Payer Health Care” and the CBSNews.com online version of Axelrod's story provides a link to a PDF of the “study” – as posted on the Physicians for a National Health Program's site. In the first story, with the numbers on screen credited to “Harvard Medical School” and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler identified on screen as with “Harvard Medical School,” Axelrod reported Woolhandler “was part of a team that tracked more than 9,000 people for up to 13 years, comparing the health of those with insurance to those without.
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LYING LIARS LIE FOR THE LIAR-IN-CHIEF.
LLS
PETA?
“YOU LIE!” SeeBS!
Yep, can’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.
So if the fringe media is correct, and 45,000 die at home because they can't afford to go to the hospital or doctors office, then 195,000 insured people die every year because they do have health insurance. They can't have it both ways.
More Americans die from accidents every year (of all kinds, not just auto), so let’s outlaw carelessness.
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/toptens/accidents/accidentsfull.html
How many illegal aliens are part of that number?
LLS
Amen!
LLS
“so why not ban tobacco products and alcohol?”
What??!! And loose all that tax money for them to steal & mis-appropriate!!! Gotta pay for THEIR elite lifestyles somehow, besides the regular graft & corruption that is!!
The Dan Rather Fraudulent Network (aka CBS) does it again......
Great post. Bump.
If they get government health care the number of deaths would be 450,000
save for later.
Lotsa stuff to discount here, but the one thing that really sticks out is the apparent belief that just having an insurance policy guarantees you’ll live longer, whether it you use it, or it provides quality care, or not. Major logical flaw there.
The study itself has some data that shows that those with less than high school educations die at a rate that’s greater than the uninsured, as do those with low incomes, the unemployed, smokers, and heavy drinkers. Excluded from the study are those on government run insurance plans, which I found interesting. Essentially, it’s a study that shows that those who take care of themselves are likely to live longer, and some people who won’t spend their own money taking care of themselves will do it if someone else pays for it.
Here’s the study:
http://pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-insurance-and-mortality-in-US-adults.pdf
Over 75,000 British die through bad medical care in their hospitals.
Or outlaw dying, altogether. /sarc Congress sure seems to think they are immortal....by the way they have the absolute best benefits taxpayer money can buy. Why don't we all go on their health plan then. Wouldn't that solve the problem? /sarc
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