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Repealing Obamacare Will Kill more than 43,000 People every year
Chicago Tribune ^ | 1-23-2017 | David Himmelstien-Steffie Woodhandler

Posted on 01/23/2017 2:36:51 PM PST by tcrlaf

Now that President Donald Trump is in the Oval Office, thousands of American lives that were previously protected by provisions of the Affordable Care Act are in danger. For more than 30 years, we have studied how death rates are affected by changes in health-care coverage, and we're convinced that an ACA repeal could cause tens of thousands of deaths annually.

The story is in the data: The biggest and most definitive study of what happens to death rates when Medicaid coverage is expanded, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that for every 455 people who gained coverage across several states, one life was saved per year.

Applying that figure to even a conservative estimate of 20 million losing coverage in the event of an ACA repeal yields an estimate of 43,956 deaths annually.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aca; fake; fakenews; first100days; hysterics; liberalhysteria; lysenkoism; obamacare; repealandreplace; trump45
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To: tcrlaf

Good. These folks worship Darwin. Reap it!


2 posted on 01/23/2017 2:37:59 PM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: tcrlaf

Hey why not 43 million, it will have the same truth.


3 posted on 01/23/2017 2:38:30 PM PST by freedomlover (Satire alert)
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To: tcrlaf

Without anything to reference to give context, that number doesnt mean anything.

I mean if we keep it and 82,000 are killed because we kept it,.....


4 posted on 01/23/2017 2:38:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tcrlaf

...but BarkyCare is okay to kill babies before they are born...


5 posted on 01/23/2017 2:38:41 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: tcrlaf

Sorry, but not buying it, oh math illiterate journalism major.

And your source is even more so for more reasons than possible to explain.


6 posted on 01/23/2017 2:39:10 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: tcrlaf

Leftards live for hyperbole.


9 posted on 01/23/2017 2:39:46 PM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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To: tcrlaf

Where did they get that number and what are the statistical control factors?

Sounds like somebody done pull a number right outta dey fanny, again.


10 posted on 01/23/2017 2:39:49 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: HarleyLady27

. . . not to mention our poor Veterans!


11 posted on 01/23/2017 2:39:51 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: tcrlaf

Obamacare has killed over 43,000 people per year by denying treatments or the doctor you had.


12 posted on 01/23/2017 2:39:52 PM PST by GilGil (E. Deplorabus Unum)
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Will they be forced to move to Chicago?

Re-electing Obama cost many times that b.s. number. Bad economy, drug epidemic, gangs and illegals running amok.


13 posted on 01/23/2017 2:40:17 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: freedomlover
These morons can't do math at all.

Still and all, IF it's ILLEGALS and DEMS swho die...I say HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORAY!

14 posted on 01/23/2017 2:41:25 PM PST by nopardons
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To: freedomlover

This is classic alternate fact -or- fake news.

How do they know when the replacement of Obamacare is not even published yet?

Liberals have no shame in stating lies.


15 posted on 01/23/2017 2:42:10 PM PST by entropy12 (Enough winning Mr President already! I am getting tired of all these wins! (not).)
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To: Sirius Lee

Given that Obamacare probably will kill 500,000 this year, by repealing it we will only be killing 43,000 will be a huge improvement.


16 posted on 01/23/2017 2:42:18 PM PST by PGR88
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To: GilGil

And denying treatments to our Vets!


17 posted on 01/23/2017 2:42:43 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Sirius Lee

If your life is dependent on a government hand-out, you are doing it wrong.


19 posted on 01/23/2017 2:43:29 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Just another variation on the headline “Trump takes office; Women and Children Hardest Hit”


20 posted on 01/23/2017 2:43:32 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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