DesertFox
10-11-2007, 06:50 PM
Last month, when she announced her $110-billion health-care reform plan, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), said, "Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care. Let me repeat that. Here in America people are dying because they couldn't get the care they needed when they were sick."
The Democratic presidential contender further decried the fact that 47 million Americans are without health insurance, painting a dire picture of a crisis in health care coverage as the basis for her proposal to require mandatory health insurance for every American. ...
But Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, ... said it is "virtually impossible" from the data cited in the IOM study to say outright that 18,000 people a year die because they don't have health insurance.
"This was not set up like a typical scientific study, where you have two groups that are identical and you are able to track them and determine what happened to one group that has insurance versus one group that doesn't have insurance," he said.
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The Democratic presidential contender further decried the fact that 47 million Americans are without health insurance, painting a dire picture of a crisis in health care coverage as the basis for her proposal to require mandatory health insurance for every American. ...
But Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, ... said it is "virtually impossible" from the data cited in the IOM study to say outright that 18,000 people a year die because they don't have health insurance.
"This was not set up like a typical scientific study, where you have two groups that are identical and you are able to track them and determine what happened to one group that has insurance versus one group that doesn't have insurance," he said.
More (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200710/NAT20071011a.html)