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John Hopkins study of 23 million child hospitalizations in 37 states from 1998-2005 showed that the uninsured children faced a 60 percent increased risk of dying. That is a lot of dead children....and means a lot of medical & insurance industry adults were making decisions not to insure them and to withhold lifesaving treatments.
(from U.S. Senate speaker Senator Bob Casey, Pennsylvania speaking live on C-SPAN2)
This was on the BBC news this morning-
The US House of Representatives has backed a healthcare bill in a step towards reforms promised by President Obama, despite strong opposition.
Passed in a narrow 220-215 vote, the bill aims to extend coverage to 36 million more Americans and provide affordable healthcare to 96%.
Fingers crossed that these studies will become a thing of the past and a dim and distant memory.
Lidia xx
Thanks for keeping an eye on this Lidia..I was watching while the debating and voting was going on...inside a packed congressional chamber. I love the idea that single mothers (we have soooo many here) with deadbeat dads (fathers who either rarely or never pay child support) will have the huge relief that comes with health insurance protection for themselves and their children.
cheers, Jaynie
I think the reason so many of these kids die is poor mom knows she'll end up up huge medical bills so she waits until there is no other option before she goes to the ER. The ER treats you differently when there is no insurance. I don't even think it's intentional. I think its been ingrained over years of service. The docs & nurses shouldn't know insurance status... it would make care much more uniform. I hope the universal care is not a bandaid with huge copays & deductibles that allows the politicans to feel benevolent while the neediest people still can't afford to go to the doctors. When you have nothing theres not a whole lot of difference between $500 & $5000 in coays & deductables. My mom & grams medigap insurance just jumped 70% this month. How doea one stretch a nickle into a dime? Seniors with fixed incomes are often the hardest hit. & I rant...
Amy
Martzj, Thank you again for your information. I always learn something when you post. These are the kind of studies we need to get out to the opposition. All those who believe the government will be taking their rights away if we help others get health insurance. I am happy the house passed the health care bill. I am worried the Senate may not - Then I am worried that the states will opt out - especially NE where I live because it is a red state and I'm not talking about football. Almost everyone I encounter around here is against healthcare reform and most of the time they are not informed about the need or the state of those without healthcare. I say healthcare for all. A healthier nation makes a more peaceful nation. So many times while I was working in the public schools, I would encounter parents who fell between the cracks and couldn't get services for their child. the parents were hard working and trying to make ends meet and could not afford healthcare.How can this be happening in the USA?
Disgusting stats. We felt the sting of no insurance when my husband was in the hospital. They released him the next day (wanted to the same day) with blood clots. However, they found a mass on his lung that they ignored; it was cancer and it wasn't until it mets to the brain that anyone bothered to do anything for him without insurance. We had to find our own doctors on the internet! His doctor wouldn't recommend anyone for a whole year. He said he'd die anyway.
When he was in the one hospital, he heard a nurse outside his room say to another, oh him? He has no insurance, so don't bother going in to do anything. He's just here because his wife demanded he stay overnight.
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