Study Links 45,000 U.S. Deaths a year to lack of Insurance

OK....so basically this study followed 9,000 patients and found out that the uninsured are more likely to die than an insured person...or that the rate is higher. The studies prescreening for health was 5 categories. That is ridiculous and not enough. It doesn't get an equal sample and I think the researchers used that to skew the figures.

Now, on average, let's compare a person with health insurance vs a person without insurance. A person with insurance tends to come from a higher socioeconomic class. These people tend to have less stress, eat better, exercise more, and just have an all around better lifestyle. Since these people have the better lifestyle, they, on average, live longer than people of low socioeconomic level.

Cliff note version:

People who have insurance tend to have a high SES....people without insurance tend to be low SES.

People of high SES tend to take better care of themselves, which means they live longer, get ill less, and recover from illness better....

This study does not have enough health screening to weed out the other factors that could be distorting the results. What looks like the horrors of our system could be nothing more than the luxury of living a better and healthier life.