CAP, Harvard Researchers Release Report Analysis Estimating Thousands of Deaths from Senate Repeal Bill
A new column from the
Recent studies of the effects of insurance coverage on mortality confirm that health care coverage has an impact on whether Americans live or die. The column provides estimates of additional deaths under the
"There is a growing body of literature that demonstrates the life-and-death impacts of this bill. We designed our approach using the most rigorous studies to calculate data-derived estimates," said
"This data should make senators stop and think whether it's worth stripping millions of people of their health care coverage, putting their very lives at risk, in order to provide tax breaks to the wealthy, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers," said
Using estimates of mortality rates from
* Assuming that 15 million fewer people would have coverage in 2026, CAP estimates that the coverage reductions from the
* Assuming that 19 million fewer people would have coverage, CAP estimates that the coverage reductions from the
* Assuming that 23 million (https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52752) fewer people would have coverage, CAP estimates that the coverage reductions from the
To put this in perspective, 27,700 deaths would be approximately the number of people in
Read "Coverage Losses Under the Senate Health Care Bill Could Result in 18,100 to 27,700 Additional Deaths in 2026 (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/news/2017/06/22/434917/coverage-losses-senate-health-care-bill-result-18100-27700-additional-deaths-2026/)" by
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