Let's just ignore the fact that no hospital can refuse treatment due to lack of money, m'kay?
And you just ignore the fact that was right above your response: 45,000 people die every year because they lack insurance. And the good doctors who did the research explain this for you below. But let me paraphrase: if you don't have insurance, you (or your wife, mother, sister, daughther) may not discover that bump in her breast is early stage cancer, and when she finally does, it's too late. Or if you skimp on your diabetes or heart medication because you can't afford it, you will die. It's not as simple as people being denied care after showing up at the emergency room after a heart attack; there are more subtle ways lack of insurance and medical care can and does kill people.
But you don't want facts or reasoned arguments, do you? You just want to spout your babble from your foaming mouth that government is taking over healthcare and Democrats will enslave you.
Every other developed country figured out a way to insure ALL their citizens and provide basic coverage, including Japan, Germany, and Israel (if you don't like the examples of England, Canada, and France). Yet the US wants to implement a market-based insurance model (mind you, no universal health care, no public option, only mandates to buy insurance), and suddenly "government take over of healthcare" or "take your government hands off my medicare!".
Let's repeat: 45,000 people die every year because they lack insurance. And I believe health care is a right, not a privilege, since LIFE is the most basic right I have. Some wise men said it much better than I ever could over 200 years ago:
"That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and
have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely,
the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety"
You are a fan of founding fathers, aren't you?
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"The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance,
found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of
death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess
death rate found in 1993.
The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately
insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and
baseline health, said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches
at the University of Washington School of Medicine. We doctors have many new
ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease but
only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.