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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: Sirius Lee

Guesstimates.....always the way I like my so called facts


41 posted on 01/23/2017 2:50:58 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: freedomlover

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


Or 43 billion.

Or destroy the entire galaxy.


42 posted on 01/23/2017 2:51:15 PM PST by samtheman (delete * from executive orders where author=obama)
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To: Sirius Lee

Oh sure.

They need to prove that obamacare saved 43,000 people per year.


43 posted on 01/23/2017 2:51:24 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Thibodeaux
——Steffie Woodhandler ——

hmmm.... what a name

I suppose it beats her stage name - Trixie Johnsongobbler

44 posted on 01/23/2017 2:52:08 PM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Sirius Lee

The next step is to start airing those every few seconds commercials on the radio. Every few seconds, someone dies without obamacare..


45 posted on 01/23/2017 2:52:10 PM PST by Trillian
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To: ScottinVA

Not enough deaths for the leftists. They despise humanity.


46 posted on 01/23/2017 2:53:49 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: Sirius Lee

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>> “Repealing Obamacare Will Kill more than 43,000 People every year” <<

Healthcare in general kills way more than that.

Ending “healthcare” will doubtless save millions of lives that would be lost to drugs and quackery.
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47 posted on 01/23/2017 2:54:13 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: eyeamok
So they don’t believe in evolution??

homobamacare supporters are strong proponents of Survival of the Fittest until they discover that they are the unfit.

48 posted on 01/23/2017 2:54:15 PM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Neil Cavuto reported statistics a couple of days ago of how many MORE DEATHS have occurred from medical problems since the inception of OCARE it was really astounding!!! People NOT getting the medical care NEEDED to save their lives!!! This report is PURE BS!!!


49 posted on 01/23/2017 2:54:49 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: GilGil

Yep. Or people just not going to the doctor, even if they suspect something might be wrong, because they cannot afford the deductible.


50 posted on 01/23/2017 2:57:19 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: Sirius Lee

Which 43,000?


51 posted on 01/23/2017 2:57:28 PM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: BobL

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AMEN!


52 posted on 01/23/2017 2:57:33 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: All

So 43,000 people stopped dying in 2009? The BS meter is off the charts!


53 posted on 01/23/2017 2:57:47 PM PST by Drago
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To: editor-surveyor
Ending “healthcare” will doubtless save millions of lives that would be lost to drugs and quackery.

Current numbers show that 210,000 Americas die every year due to medical mistakes. So, yes in a matter of a decade, millions would be saved inadvertently by avoiding those quality doctors that still accept homobamacare patients.

54 posted on 01/23/2017 3:02:48 PM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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55 posted on 01/23/2017 3:05:37 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Sirius Lee

724,000 are murdered every month in Chicago.


56 posted on 01/23/2017 3:07:06 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Sirius Lee

If Dems, OK by me!


57 posted on 01/23/2017 3:09:06 PM PST by Renegade
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To: Mark

14 million people are alive because they refused to sign up for 0bamaCare.

I know, I’m one of them.


58 posted on 01/23/2017 3:09:27 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: Sirius Lee

Fear mongering is from the Left’s playbook. Soon they will be warning America that Trump will be rounding up mothers older than 50 and sending them to internment camps.


59 posted on 01/23/2017 3:11:03 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: Sirius Lee
Even teh so-called "fact checker" at the liberal Washington Post gave this claim 4 Pinocchios.
60 posted on 01/23/2017 3:11:23 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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