Death in US caused by: Terrorists = 24 Citizens w/Guns = 280,024

[Jarqui]

8. 280,000 died from guns in the last decade - I can beat that

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Number of uninsured over the last 10 years
2014 33,000,000
2013 42,000,000
2012 48,000,000
2011 48,600,000
2010 49,900,000
2009 49,000,000
2008 46,300,000
2007 45,700,000
2006 47,000,000
2005 46,600,000
Total 456,100,000

2009: Harvard: New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/

About 0.1% of Americans without health insurance die each year because they don't have health insurance.

So 0.1% of 456,100,000 without healthcare is 456,000 Americans died in the last 10 years because they didn't have healthcare. We spend trillions on wars and homeland security because terrorists took out 3,000 Americans on 9/11 but we won't help 456,000 Americans get the proper medical care they need to survive. That simply blows me away - it won't compute or make any sense to me ever.

EDIT: Important point: in spite of Obamacare, tens of millions of Americans will remain uninsured

If you think pandering health care tax cuts to the middle class to get GOP votes is going to significantly reduce Americans dying because they don't have health care, please think again. On this issue, Bernie Sanders has it right. Single payer saves significantly more American lives than taking away every American gun and killing every terrorist on the planet. Those are the facts as I see them.

If a politician panders tax cuts to solve this problem, then I wonder what they care about most: Americans lives or getting elected.