This killer is the lack of adequate health care in the United States. Researchers from Harvard Medical School found in late 2009 that 45,000 people die unnecessarily every year due to lack of health insurance.

Have any of you ever seen the following anywhere in paper or on a gravestone?

"Cause of death - Lack of health insurance"

In 2008, four times as many U.S. Army veterans died because they lacked health insurance than the total number of U.S. soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. That’s right: 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died because they were uninsured.

Total BS. I was in the Marine Corps, and could go to the VA for my health needs. It's automatic for veterans.

I never have because I had health insurance from my job, and I haven't used it for probably 5 years. My theory is the best health care you can get is to stay as far away from the doctors, and their drugs as you can.

That's not to say they don't have their place for broken bones,etc., but the individual has control of their health if they work at it.

This killer is the lack of adequate health care in the United States. Researchers from Harvard Medical School found in late 2009 that 45,000 people die unnecessarily every year due to lack of health insurance.

In reality, much of health care is actually "sick care".  Its methods treat the symptoms and not the causes directly.  People don't die from a lack of health insurance.  I think allopathic doctors are the best at keeping people alive in emergencies.  You are responsible for your health and not health care.

I might be in favor for some type of universal health care for people who suffer catastrophies but I don't want to pay for other people's irresponsible lifestyles.  I don't want to pay for the consequences of their bad diets.

What blatant stupidity.   Well, I'm sick of ignoramuses who are intent on destroying this nation by means of spreading lies and half truths.  If idiots that spout this nonsense where ever to actually LIVE, not take it from a commie proffesor at a "uneeveahsatee of hiagh leahninggg" nor take  a state sponsored guided tour into a communist country, then you'd stop living off fairy tales.

A friend of mine who is dirt poor, yes,.....very, very poor....developed some horrible pains that landed them at a hospital's emergency.  NO insurance.  Turned away?  No way.   This person was treated for months for a massive infection before they could actually treat what was realy wrong, a ruptured appendix.  After the operation, diabetic complications showed up, and there was a two week hospitalizatrion and treatment as well.  I said, no job, no money, no insurance!!!

What's wrong with health care in this country is not a lack of it, but the quality, as pharmaceutical companies are the ones calling all the shots.  Why not spend your energies fighting that very real and present danger???  Oh, I know, it's not politically expedient.

Grow up.