Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance | Health | Reuters

There really are people who believe no one dies in the US for lack of health care. (I, personally, know at least one person who did.)

Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance | Health | Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.

'We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction ... than drunk driving and homicide combined,' Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters.