New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage 2009 study.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...alth-coverage/“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.”
Yes. If say you are in a car accident, the hospital is not going to wheel you out of the hospital and let you die on the curb. The person you replied to, while anecdotal, he did not say he had immediate life threatening injuries.
Also people lost their insurance due to prior illnesses. One of the worst things about our health care system prior to ACA.