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Jarqui

(10,123 posts)
3. This is the thing that drives me nuts on this issue:
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 01:53 AM
Jan 2016

0.1% of that 30 million = 30,000 Americans, according to Harvard's study, die each year because they don't have health care.

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/


Because Hillary thinks solving that would be hard, even if she improves healthcare, she's accepted that thousands of Americans must continue to die each year because they don't have healthcare coverage. Bernie disagrees and wants deaths due to lack of healthcare coverage to stop happening in America.

This is a life and death issue. In 2016, the United States will quietly endure the deaths of ten times the number of Americans we lost on 9/11. Now the GOP were hot to spend trillions to avenge those 3,000 on 9/11 but they won't spend a dime to avenge the 30,000 dying each year because they do not have healthcare coverage.

It blows my mind. I just cannot understand how these folks could let 30,000 Americans die year after year.

Hillary's direction doesn't fully address it. And she should be called out for it.

I don't know why Bernie doesn't hit folks up with those facts.

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