“Every day, 70 Americans die prematurely because of a lack of health coverage and 1,040 more are denied coverage, charged a higher rate, or otherwise discriminated against because of a pre-existing condition. The health care status quo may be an option for insurance companies but it is not an option for American families. Now is the time to pass health care reform.” – Senator Dick Durbin
There is no depth of idiocy that a liberal in search of liberty infringing legislation will not dive to. And boy are we getting some whoppers of some tales from the left about how without health insurance Americans are dropping like flies. But thanks to people like Senator Durbin we can look at how silly the numbers they throw around which they hope support their desires for a more socialized medical system than we already have really are.
According to demographics data from 2007 total deaths in the United States for 2007 were 8.26 per 1,000 persons or 2.478 million deaths per year (based on a population of 300 million). Per day that is 6,789 deaths per day in the United States.
Pondering the fact that one either does have health insurance or one does not have health insurance then this means that about 6,729 people die each day who do in fact have health insurance if Mr. Durbin’s numbers are to be believed.
We hear that there are somewhere between 15 and 30 million Americans without health insurance in the country. That means that (based on a population of 300 million) there are between 285 and 270 million Americans with health insurance.
Results of some simple math are as follows:
Rate of death for Americans without health insurance is between 0.000467% and 0.000233% per day.
Rate of death for Americans with health insurance is between 0.002358% and 0.002489% per day.
Ok, now look at those numbers closely because people with health insurance are 5 to 10.67 times more likely to die than those without insurance.
See how meaningless it is to throw out numbers like this Mr. Durbin? All you crackpot liberals who think you can shock us by making any claim that crosses your pathetic little minds to try and support an unconstitutional government program better take note too? If anything we see that simply having insurance is not an indicator that you will survive an illness now is it. So what is the point about telling us how many people die each day without having health insurance? You know, other than to obfuscate and avoid the meat of the argument which is that what you want is simply not allowed under the contract we the people have with our federal government.
Now here is something else to ponder. How many of those 70 people each day that die and who didn’t have health insurance are like Rose Mankos who found herself squashed by a train after determining that her gym bag was more important than her own safety? How many cases of DRT (or Dead Right There) are included in these numbers where no amount of care provided could put Humpty Dumpty back together again?
And here is another good question to ponder. Liberals tell us that health care is a right so inalienable that it must be granted by the federal government. But if this claim is true then why does Medicare and Medicaid (two prime examples of government run socialized medicine administered by these same liberals) deny so many claims every day to people just trying to get their so called “right?” Hmm? Oh, I know, don’t confuse the left with the facts. That would be rude and probably burst their pathetic little bubble.
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