Reporter Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times, points out that a study by a branch of the National Academy of Science says that someone dies every half hour - 18,000 per year - from lack of health insurance. If these persons finally manage to reach an emergency room, in spite of thousands of dollars of emergency care, it is too late to save them.
We need health care for all to avoid these deaths, or, if you think these persons are expendable, then think in terms of the money that could be saved if their health problems could be caught at an earlier stage and treated at much less cost.
Do you know someone without health insurance? Would you like one of them to be included in the above statistics? Please support health care for all.
Bibi Momsen
Corvallis
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Even people that are insured will eventually go in the red because of some illness, if we leave things as is.
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