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.
OTOH, gay men, who have a life expectancy of 42 years, due to the same issues of alcoholism, drug use, suicide, suceptibility to fatal STDs, smoking, and high risk taking, tend to be disproportionately better insured.
Just playing devil’s advocate here.
Of course, gay men only make up about 1% of the adult population, so there’s that to consider as well.
Well said.
Very well said and I’ll add illegals to your list
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!
Don't go interjecting logical explanations into emotionally-driven statistics!
Odd how Harvard University researchers missed something so obvious that all of us out here in the real world already know it...
Exactly.
It’s like saying people without car insurance are most likely to have an accident and total their car. So what?