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15. Ryan's and the GOP's resistance to health insurance coverage kills

New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
Uninsured, working-age Americans have 40 percent higher death risk than privately insured counterparts

By David Cecere

Cambridge Health Alliance

Thursday, September 17, 2009
HealthMed

Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.

The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.

“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “We doctors have many new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease — but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.”

The study, which analyzed data from national surveys carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assessed death rates after taking into account education, income, and many other factors, including smoking, drinking, and obesity. It estimated that lack of health insurance causes 44,789 excess deaths annually.

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

And that's only lack of insurance. There are many other ways that GOP policies and Ryan's political efforts kill people - malnutrition when they cut food assistance programs, exposure from homelessness because of lack of outreach programs, deaths from utilities being shutoff when assistance programs are unfunded, the list goes on and on. And of course denying women abortions even when they are medically recommended kill women.

Maybe the GOP and Paul Ryan are not out there with guns shooting people in the head but their policies KILL people in this country and overseas every single day.