Sure, take healthcare away from millions of people and just let them die. Let me know how that works out for you.
Die? Millions will die...lmfao!!! What an idiot of the left wing propaganda.
They are truly morons....and kept that way by government schooling.
Every myth is geared toward proving the need for big totalitarian government.
Even during the Roosevelt Depression there weren't the deaths they keep pretending would occur.
"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.
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?
