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Health Care Restrictions Cost Thousands of Lives in US

With a story as high profiled as this, it’s hard not to have heard snippits of it here and there. We all know the basics, but we aren’t aware of the details. The fact is, despite national legislative health reform, heath care in the US will remain dismal for many Americans, resulting in continuin

g deaths and personal tragedies.

->The American Journal of Public Health published findings demonstrating that being uninsured raises individuals od

ds of dying my 40%. Meaning 44,798 deaths occur each year among the 46 million uninsured Americans.

-> Health care can be denied to battered women

->Recent Harvard research team estimates that 2,226 US military veterans did in 2008 due to lack of health insurance, mor

e then 14 times the number of deaths suffered by troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more then twice as many as have died since the war began in 2001.

-> Lack on insurance covered provided to children has led or contributed to nearly 17,000 deaths over the past two decades, says research conducted by Johns Hopkins.

->When you are diagnosed with a chronic condition, you're cut off at a much earlier rate then if you were not diagnosed with a chronic condition.

->The health care reform will continue to leave room for the unnecessary deaths, as it will do nothing for the uninsured until 2013, even then still leaving 17 million uninsured.

->7 million of those people are uninsured illegal immigrants, who under the new health reform aren't even allowed to purchase health insurance.