Uninsurance Third Leading Cause of Death for Near-Elderly
How many people should die because they don’t have health insurance, before we recognize the need for a Medicare for All program? In Tennessee, about 13 working-age people die per week, because of lack of health care, ad health care coverage, according to Famlies USA report.
In 2006, there were nearly 3,103,000 people
between the ages of 25 and 64 living in Tennessee.
Of those, 18.3 percent were uninsured.2 Uninsured
Tennesseans are sicker and die sooner than their insured
counterparts.
[...]Between 2000 and 2006, the estimated number of adults between the ages of 25
and 64 in Tennessee who died because they did not have health insurance was
more than 3,600.
Now, here’s a little tid-bit from the report that you may not have known:
Across the United States, in 2006, twice as many people died from lack of health
insurance as died from homicide.
You can access the report on each state here. FamiliesUSA is advocating health insurance coverage and that is where I split from their message. I’d much rather see a Medicare for All program in this country. When we look at the numbers of people dying unnecessarily each week, maybe we can work to make that a reality.
Filed under: Health Insurance | Tagged: Families USA, Health, Health Insurance, uninsured
We don’t need insurance for all…we need single payer universal health care. We need the exact same sort of program they have in England and France and Germany and every other civilized, industrialized country.
Ultimately, yes, I agree with you DBK.
I think the best way to get there, is via a Medicare for All program.
The rich are not afraid of us. When they fear the possibility of revolution and or violence and retribution against themselves and their families they’ll pass a few laws allowing us a bit more breathing space and a slightly longer life.
Sadly however, they know that they have absolutely nothing to fear, and so they continue to hog all of the life vests as millions of their fellow citizens shriek for help as they slowly drown.
Fuck the rich. Believe in Revolution.
mnuez
P.S. I should clarify (there is, after all, a Patriot Act, is there not?) that my desire is only that they fear a revolution and not that there should actually be one. I say this, both, to get the internet spies off my back and also because I sincerely do not believe that violence from the lower classes would bring about anything other than a shift in control. Revolutions get lots and lots and lots of people killed and they almost never resolve anything for the better (save revolutions from OUTSIDE occupation such as here in 1776). I do however wish that the wealthy at least feared the possibility of a revolution such that they would rectify the problems that would cause it and thus obviate the need for it.
Mnuez, I believe the saying is”Stop bitching, start a revolution.” And this is why people running for office should be listening to the people. They folks we elect are supposed to be keeping things in balance.
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