LOL ... this is what qualifies as new to the lamestream media.
I call made up.
BS...hospitals are required by law to treat every ER patient regardless of ability to pay. If it were otherwise hospitals would all be profitable and there would be no waiting in a room full of uninsured people with runny noses and a cough looking for primary care.
Believe CBS? Weren’t they the folks who hired Dan Rather?
Hell, I wouldn’t trust CBS with a three minute egg.
Statistically speaking, this would be because people who are uninsured tend to have other characteristics that make them more prone to premature death — drug and alcohol addiction, little education, general irresponsibility, etc. Obviously that doesn’t describe everybody who’s uninsured, but you can be pretty sure that the vast majority of gangbangers, drug addicts, prostitutes, general deadbeats, etc, who show up in hospital emergency rooms are uninsured, and they tend to arrive with a long history of poor personal health care and some underlying conditions which aggravate the condition they’re seeking treatment for.
Many people choose not to become insured, and they may make poor health choices otherwise and don’t visit an ER until they have accumulated problems. On most ER visits I’ve had, insurance uis not discussed until the triage is done.
More DNCBS lies. These stats are cooked.
Pray for America’s Freedom
And twice-as-likely to be carried in with an OD.
Some private hospitals are more likely to transfer an uninsured patient than an insured patient, said Lavonas, who wasn’t involved in the new research.
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Michelle Obama may know a little about THAT one.
Now it makes perfect sense...no need for a disclaimer there doc.
http://www.techbanyan.com/5118/dr-atul-gawande-sen-ted-kennedy-seat/
They need to do a breakdown by percentage insured at the hospital, i.e hospitals with 0-25% patients having no insurance, 25-50% and so on. Maybe it’s the hospital or the setting - urban vs. suburban. Maybe it’s pre-existing conditions - if you are a diabetic or immuno-suppressed, you are less likely to survive your trauma.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. I think this falls in the last of the three categories.
I call BS.
BUT, if it were true, then it would mean that doctors are killing people in ER and they should be locked up.
When will a national Task Force be created to investigate and arrest these killer doctors, nurses and administrators, and shut down those hospitals.
Again, I call BS.
Then they should just not go there.
These are the same folks who are not going to pay for insurance under any circumstances.
So they lumped together car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds and then pretended to adjust the data to "take into account the severity of the injuries"?
This is probably how they fudged the data, by purporting to equate a category like "gunshot wounds" with "automobile crashes" as equally severe.
So the problem of the gang-banging underclass becomes a problem of "lack of health insurance" and "not enough money spent on hospitals treating them."
And if we just pass nationalized health care, then "severe" inner-city gunshot victims will have the same survival rate as "severe" suburban auto crash victims! It's magic!
Yeah; from gunshot wounds, AIDS, STD’s, and a host of other SELF-INDULGENT/DEPENDENCY LIFESTYLE CHOICES that these parasites make.
I’m not wearing my glasses today, and first glance the title read:
Uninsured Twice as Likely to Die on FR.
Trying to simplify cause and effect does not work. So many factors.