Harvad Study: 1 American dies every 12 minutes due to treatable illnesses due to lack of insurance.

[Aeson]

"And in reality, one person every twelve minutes actually sounds pretty darn good."

Sick ****...

[Dinner]

If you can't borrow $27 from friends or family to save your life then you were probably a massive douchebag.

Apparently he either didn't know he could die from it or thought it could wait so he bought pain killers. Sadly, the infection spread and he died.

[Dinner]

So it seems 0.08% of the population dies per year and 0.01% of the population died but but wouldn't have it they had medical care. So we could cut the death rate by about 1/8th simply if we had universal care like every other 1st world nation has and many developing nations have. BTW that only counts people who die prematurely of treatable illnesses and doesn't count the lost productivity due to people being too sick to work or going to work sick but being less productive because of it. How many people would not have gotten sick at all if their co-worker hadn't gone into work sick and thus spread the illness? Any way you slice it our current medical system is ****ing retarded.

[Dauphin]

So it seems 0.08% of the population dies per year and 0.01% of the population died but but wouldn't have it they had medical care.

0.08%? Wow, life expectancy is on the order of 1,000 years. Impressive.

[loinburger]

It's not a lack of empathy, you idiotic person.

44000 people per year? Insignificant, says the person who has never paid for health insurance!

What's that? I'm being a pedantic idiot? Let me remind you that I've never paid for health insurance.

[Aeson]

0.08% is way off... off the top of my head with life expectancy around 78 or whatever, it should be about (but less due to population growth, though with boomers coming of age it may actually be more) 1/78 people die each year, so probably over 1%.

[Dinner]

"Harvad" what school is that?

It's Harvard said with a northeastern accent.

[Dinner]

0.08% is way off... off the top of my head with life expectancy around 78 or whatever, it should be about (but less due to population growth, though with boomers coming of age it may actually be more) 1/78 people die each year, so probably over 1%.

OK, Let's take you're numbers. We're still talking about a significant number of people. 44,000 out of X number who die each year.

[Dauphin]

I don't see any numbers in your links. Did you mislink, or am I being blind? Where does the 1 every 12 minutes come from?

[Dinner]

The link is to an ABC News video which talks about where the numbers come from.

[a.kitman]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

where the best numbers i could find.

44000/2400000= 0,018 so 1,8%

[KrazyHorse]

The link is to an ABC News video which talks about where the numbers come from.

Post it, you silly person. You put the same link to the idiotic abc video twice.

[BlackCat]

OK, Let's take you're numbers. We're still talking about a significant number of people. 44,000 out of X number who die each year.

Why do you claim that Aeson are made up of numbers ? I consider him a real person.

[Dinner]

KH, you snarky **** sucker. They both work well for me so what's wrong with you? Still, to make it easier for you, here you go: http://www.scientificamerican.com/bl...han-2009-09-17

And the second: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insuran...1#.Tsl23fJmnwk

It's a different source (but about the same study) since posting both of them to ABC causes confusion.

[DinoDoc]

In other news, a 24 year old father in Cincinnati died the other day from a toothache. His life could have been saved with $27 in antibiotics but he didn't have health insurance so he died instead because he was unemployed. WTF?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insuran...1#.TsksTPJmnwk

Cincinnati Wal-Mart pharmacy – 513 351 9818 – 28 500 mg capsules of Amoxicillin. Price: $4.

Wal-Mart offers nearly a dozen similar antibiotics as part of its $4 prescription generic drug program.

Douchebag dies from being a douchebag and you expect sympathy? Also you need to catch up on the news. This happened in September.