do people not get the whole correlation/causation thing? maybe people without insurance are more likely to not know how to drive, drive cars that are less safe, and generally have higher levels of destructive behaviors. sheesh!
Substance-abusing street people and gang bangers don’t do as well as average people after traumatic injury. Who would have thunk it!
It does seem to be over the heads of an awful lot of people . . .
I expect if you took random samples of insured vs. uninsured parents, and asked them how high a temperature their young child would have to have before they'd take the child to the emergency room, most of the insured parents would give you a reasonable number while a large percentage of the uninsured parents would say they have no idea, or that they don't have a thermometer in their home so would have no idea how high the child's temperature was. If you arrive at an emergency room already closer to death, you're more likely to die there, regardless of what treatment you get.