Obama Lied, People Died: Mortality Rate INCREASES Under ObamaCare
The lies Barry Obama, his national media, and Democrats told to pass the fascist monstrosity that is ObamaCare are almost too many to remember. You can keep your doctor. Nope. You can keep your plan. Nope. It will decrease the deficit. Nope. Costs will decrease. NOPE. And my favorite piece of emotional blackmail: ObamaCare will save 45,000 lives per year. Well, according to a new study, ObamaCare might actually be killing people.
Over at the Federalist, Brian Frankie has done a bang-up job looking at American mortality rates in the wake of ObamaCare's passage in 2010. What he found is that the number of premature deaths has actually increased over the last few years. Although we were told again and again that the passage of ObamaCare would annually save thousands and thousands from premature deaths …
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Nevertheless, this is not an insignificant correlation. So let's examine why it is at least reasonable to blame ObamaCare for a spike in premature deaths.
1. Millions lost their doctor. The relationship between doctor and patient can be as sacred as the relationship between priest and parishioner. Having to start over, having to tell a stranger all about your health problems (which can sometimes be embarrassing), having to get naked in front of this stranger; this can be a traumatic thing. To avoid going through this, some people might have held off too long to receive medical care.
2. Outrageous deductibles. As I have written about in the past, under ObamaCare, you don’t really have insurance. Deductibles (what you pay annually out of pocket before insurance kicks in) under ObamaCare are outrageous. The last time I looked, a policy only for myself cost $400 a month, but the deductible was over $5,000!
The lies Barry Obama, his national media, and Democrats told to pass the fascist monstrosity that is ObamaCare are almost too many to remember. You can keep your doctor. Nope. You can keep your plan. Nope. It will decrease the deficit. Nope. Costs will decrease. NOPE. And my favorite piece of emotional blackmail: ObamaCare will save 45,000 lives per year. Well, according to a new study, ObamaCare might actually be killing people.
Over at the Federalist, Brian Frankie has done a bang-up job looking at American mortality rates in the wake of ObamaCare's passage in 2010. What he found is that the number of premature deaths has actually increased over the last few years. Although we were told again and again that the passage of ObamaCare would annually save thousands and thousands from premature deaths …
What happens when we calculate the death rate after excluding all external causes of morbidity (ICD-10 codes for deaths caused by drugs, alcohol, assault, suicide, and accidents — in short, anything that is not due to an internal illness)? For the decade 2004-2013, the death rate is 247.4 people per 100,000 population. It is more stable than the all-cause death rate, with a low of 244.7, a high of 249.9, and a standard deviation of 1.7.
With Obamacare extending insurance to 15 million more people, this death rate should fall to 238 per 100,000. The 2014-15 data show the actual reported death rate among U.S. adults, excluding external causes, is … 252.9.
With Obamacare extending insurance to 15 million more people, this death rate should fall to 238 per 100,000. The 2014-15 data show the actual reported death rate among U.S. adults, excluding external causes, is … 252.9.
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Nevertheless, this is not an insignificant correlation. So let's examine why it is at least reasonable to blame ObamaCare for a spike in premature deaths.
1. Millions lost their doctor. The relationship between doctor and patient can be as sacred as the relationship between priest and parishioner. Having to start over, having to tell a stranger all about your health problems (which can sometimes be embarrassing), having to get naked in front of this stranger; this can be a traumatic thing. To avoid going through this, some people might have held off too long to receive medical care.
2. Outrageous deductibles. As I have written about in the past, under ObamaCare, you don’t really have insurance. Deductibles (what you pay annually out of pocket before insurance kicks in) under ObamaCare are outrageous. The last time I looked, a policy only for myself cost $400 a month, but the deductible was over $5,000!