If 90% were happy with their insurance before obiecare that would indicate to a normal person that 90% were insured. Punishing us all for the 10% that doesn't HAVE to be taken care of by others is wrong, but it's the type of thing leftists do.
Big "if." I'm sure you have hard data to support that 90% figure, and you'll be happy to post it, amiright?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------American shouldn't be FORCED to buy their neighbors health insurance Arian .
So, no data, just opinion. And if you were shown how much the uninsured cost you prior to the PPACA, you'd
Your problem is that you believe the uninsured have the right to be fully taken care of, but you never cite your source.
No. My awareness is that because the Great God Reagan signed the EMTALA, Americans are no longer required to die in the street.
I know that bothers you, but too damn bad.
"....the Great God Reagan signed the EMTALA, Americans are no longer required to die in the street."
Yes, about the great man, Reagan....
...but stop lying about deaths.
Americans never died in the street.
Never.
Fact is....life expectancy actually increased during the Depression.
"According to my quick reading of the
Life and death during the Great Depression by José A. Tapia Granadosa and Ana V. Diez Roux, the only noticeable increase of mortality was suicide, with a noticeable decline of mortality in every other category.
It's interesting that this paper was written in 2009, before the (shall we say) sensationalist Russian claim of 7 million deaths.
According also to Michael Mosley, life expectancy actually rose through the Great Depression. In his Horizon programme
Eat, Fast and Live Longer he claims
From 1929 to 1933, in the darkest years of the great depression when people were eating far less, life expectancy increased by 6 years.
seeing as the US diet was far higher than starvation standards before the GD, even a serious reduction would have been unlikely to induce starvation level conditions in the majority of the population. And with enough food available overall, and the US always having had a very active local charity network, it's quite likely there would have been help for at least the majority of those who could not afford to feed themselves. In fact for quite a few people a somewhat leaner diet may well have contributed to the increased life expectancy. –
They include a table that shows trends in death rates per 100,000 population. Starvation does not appear on the list, nor does it rate a mention in the article. The researchers
do acknowledge that malnutrition led to decreased health during the Depression, but not to increased mortality. Malnutrition was a widespread problem, starvation was not.
Importantly, this study shows that economic crisis does not guarantee a mortality crisis, but instead reinforces the notion that what crucially matters is how governments respond and whether protective social and public health policies are in place both during and in advance of economic shocks
Sources: David Stuckler, Christopher Meissner, Price Fishback, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee. 2011. "Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929-1937." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. (
link)
Price Fishback, Michael Haines, and Shawn Kantor. 2005. "
Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief During the Great Depression."
How many people in the US starved to death during the Great Depression?
There was never......NEVER....a need for the Bolshevik iteration of socialized medicine, ObamaCare.
