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 ...
The Lying Leftist Media. They are presumed to be lying and we should assume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
Here the Lying Leftist Chicago Tribune is doing what they do best - LYING.
There aren’t 43,000 who have paid their deductible so they are paying out of pocket as it is.
Isn’t it $6,600 for an individual, and $12,393 for family?
How many babies died on obamacare watch? 43k prove it obamamedia.
Best not to post this demoralizing and lying b/s.
It's not a scientific number, it's simply propaganda.
We can laugh this off but morons will believe it; Trump and Spicer and Conway need to combat the messaging...Twitter, and other ways.
Right now 3 MILLION people die every year, most of them killed by the medical system that is now controlled by Obamacare.
So now that number drops to 43,000. Sounds like a HUGE IMPROVEMENT, as in 2,957,000 lives now saved every year.
What are we waiting for!
Do they live only one week longer?
Is that more or less than global warming will kill?
Ironic that this comes from Murder Central
I know. Even if it was theres no context. On purpose.
——Steffie Woodhandler ——
hmmm.... what a name
Isn’t that about the same number as killed in Chicago each year?
So they don’t believe in evolution??
Well visiting Chicago would give ya better odds of holding on.
So no one will be able to buy health insurance anymore?
Who believes this #FakeNews? Only the leftists. These manufactured headlines are soothing to the butthurt lefties.
If they are all liberal Democrats, I'd be okay with it.
Hey why not 43 million, it will have the same truth.
Why not 43 billion?
(Go big or go home I always say.)
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