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CBS Disguises Single-Payer Group's 45,000 Deaths Claim as a 'Harvard' Study
NewsBusters ^ | September 18, 2009 | Brent Baker

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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I see that both CNN and Reuters have also paraded out this fraudulent tripe today...both passed it off as a legitimate 'Harvard' study. Yahoo had the Reuters article as it's main headline for much of the morning.

In actuality it was done by a left wing group - Physicians for a National Health Program - who advocate for single payer healthcare.

Here's a thread on the CNN story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343103/posts

Here's the al-Reuters story - they at least mention the group and what they advocate for:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090917/hl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths
1 posted on 09/18/2009 1:50:52 PM PDT by bamahead
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To: bamahead

LYING LIARS LIE FOR THE LIAR-IN-CHIEF.

LLS


2 posted on 09/18/2009 1:54:34 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: bamahead
I think thee is more credible evidence that smoking and drinking cause many more deaths than this study so why not ban tobacco products and alcohol?
3 posted on 09/18/2009 1:56:11 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: bamahead

PETA?


4 posted on 09/18/2009 1:56:16 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: bamahead

“YOU LIE!” SeeBS!


5 posted on 09/18/2009 1:56:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Yep, can’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.


6 posted on 09/18/2009 1:57:50 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Ok, so they have 45,000 deaths because they don't have insurance. Well, let's see how many people die every year from doctor or hospital error? 195,000 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/11856.php

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.

7 posted on 09/18/2009 1:58:24 PM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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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


8 posted on 09/18/2009 1:58:45 PM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: bamahead

How many illegal aliens are part of that number?


9 posted on 09/18/2009 2:00:12 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: MsLady
Any public hospital emergency room in America is forced by Federal law to treat anyone regardless of citizenship, color or monetary status... this is just another lie from the party of liars and their media division.

LLS

10 posted on 09/18/2009 2:05:49 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Marysecretary

Amen!

LLS


11 posted on 09/18/2009 2:06:26 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: martinidon

“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!!


12 posted on 09/18/2009 2:07:58 PM PDT by Fighter@heart (Government, the most inefficient entity to ever exist)
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To: bamahead

The Dan Rather Fraudulent Network (aka CBS) does it again......


13 posted on 09/18/2009 2:15:20 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: bamahead

Great post. Bump.


14 posted on 09/18/2009 2:23:23 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: bamahead

15 posted on 09/18/2009 2:27:15 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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If they get government health care the number of deaths would be 450,000


16 posted on 09/18/2009 2:27:41 PM PDT by stockpirate (Joe Wilson Truth Czar for a Free Republic!)
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To: bamahead

save for later.


17 posted on 09/18/2009 2:54:50 PM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/user/GloriaJane)
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To: bamahead

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


18 posted on 09/18/2009 3:42:16 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Over 75,000 British die through bad medical care in their hospitals.


19 posted on 09/18/2009 5:55:57 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: erkyl
More Americans die from accidents every year (of all kinds, not just auto), so let’s outlaw carelessness.

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

20 posted on 09/18/2009 6:22:55 PM PDT by pray4liberty
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