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Sometimes Democrats are too logical. They forget that communication is mostly emotional.
 
Like health care “death panels.” Democrats need to get off the defensive and turn the issue into political death for Republicans.
 
A Harvard Medical School study says 45,000 Americans die every year because they don’t have insurance.
 
People will gladly take reform – shoot, they’ll take government-run health care – if they think it’s the difference between life and death.
 
President Obama got close when he said people shouldn’t have to go broke because they get sick.
 
Democrats need to go farther: You shouldn’t have to get sick and die because you can’t afford insurance.
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mrclean
# mrclean
Monday, September 21, 2009 1:52 PM
No one in this country is denied heath care.A recent poll shows 42% of those w/o insurance are against the government takeover of our health care system.Government intervention has given us out of control trial lawyers-the inability to cross state lines to buy health insurance etc.This study from the guy who heads up Physicians for Government takeover of health care-just more junk science with no validity-you leftie libs have no shame.I hope the dems start quoting this study.It is easy to show it is junk.I did it in 5min.
rush
# rush
Monday, September 21, 2009 1:58 PM
An Obama administration-funded study to published Sep. 17 in the American Journal of Public Health claims that the lack of health insurance causes as many as 45,000 deaths per year.

This is political science at its finest:

The study, which involved 9,004 subjects, is based on a single interview done with each study participant between 1988 and 1994. The interviews elicited a variety of self-reported information related to health, including insurance status. The interviewees were followed until 2000, when mortality status was determined.
The researchers report that the death rate was 40% higher among those who did not have health insurance at the time of the interview.
Among the many problems with the study, here are four of the most glaring; all of which will likely be missed by the media:
The researchers assumed that study subjects lacking health insurance at the time of the interviews did not subsequently gain or regain insurance coverage. In fact, a study subject could have received health coverage the very next day after the interview and this would not have been considered by the researchers.
The researchers essentially assume that lack of health insurance at the time of interview is the causal factor in the deaths that occurred. No data was gathered to back up this assumption.
None of the data collected during the interviews, including insurance status, was validated by the researchers.
The study result is statistically weak. Combined with the peculiar date-of-death cutoff (the year 2000 as opposed to any other year), it raises questions as to whether the study result was produced by “data dredging” – essentially cherry-picking data that provides the desired result.
The main study author, David Himmelstein, is a well-known single-payer health insurance advocate. He the founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. No disclosure of Himmelstein’s bias or association is made in the study or the media release. See Bill Moyers’ interview with Himmelstein at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/profile2.html.
The lead researcher, Andrew P. Wilper, was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services ─ i.e., the Obama administration -- to do the study.
The study was submitted for publication on March 16, 2009 -- two months into the Obama administration.
he study will be published in the American Journal of Public Health -- a politicized journal that often camouflages its biases under the cover of “public health.”
The study comes with a “handy” state-by-state analysis of the death toll attributed to lack of health insurance.
President Obama said in his recent address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform that,
Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it the most. And more will die as a result. We know these things to be true. [Emphasis added]

The obvious purpose of this study is to provide Obamacare supporters with a scary statistic or factoid concerning the alleged impact of uninsurance. The statistic is unadulterated junk science.
Huh?
# Huh?
Monday, September 21, 2009 2:13 PM
Mrclean and rush, you two need to reread the introduction sentence of the essay. You are missing the point completely.
Huh?
# Huh?
Monday, September 21, 2009 2:16 PM
Clarification. The first two sentences.
dap916
# dap916
Monday, September 21, 2009 3:45 PM
Let's all remember that it is up to those that "have" to make sure that those that "have not" are well taken care of and enjoy what those that "have" enjoy. It's "American". Like Obama says..."we have to make sure there is a system of 'fairness" in America". Yep... it's incumbant upon those that take responsibility for themselves to make sure that those that don't have all the benefits of American society have those benefits as well. "It's only right...it's only fair..."

What book does that come out of, y'all? The direction that the Obama administration wants to take this nation in is so clear, even those that pull the "straight democratic" lever know what is happening. My G A W D ....y'all. PLEASE don't let this happen to our America.

woody
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:03 AM
Lets see!
Obama with holds swine vaccine for folks over 65!
Yet sends it over sea to his third world terrorist friends!
Kills 3 birds with one stone.
Knocks off seniors, cuts medicare and social security.
Takes care of his terrorist friends.
Obama care at its finest!
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