{"id":8161,"date":"2012-10-11T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2012-10-11T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T20:28:49","slug":"romney-nobody-dies-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/10\/11\/romney-nobody-dies-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney’s Fact-Free Universe Isn’t Healthy (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney, who continues to lie about covering pre-existing conditions<\/a>, seems to live in a fact-free universe. Here’s what he told the Columbus Dispatch yesterday:<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don\u2019t have insurance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if 26,100 deaths per year<\/a> is the same as zero deaths, then Romney’s correct:<\/p>\n

More than 26,000 working-age adults die prematurely in the United States each year because they lack health insurance, according to a study published ahead of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law.<\/p>\n

The study, released on Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Families USA, estimates that a record high of 26,100 people aged 25 to 64 died for lack of health coverage in 2010, up from 20,350 in 2005 and 18,000 in 2000.<\/p>\n

That makes for a rate of about 72 deaths per day, or three per hour.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit group based its findings on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a 2002 Institute of Medicine study that showed the uninsured face a 25 percent higher risk of death than those with coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romney’s Fact-Free Universe Isn’t Healthy (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney says nobody dies
\nFor lack of insurance. He lies!
\nThree work-age adults
\nDie per hour — the results
\nOf no health plan. With Mitt that will rise.<\/p>\n

*****
\nPolitical Haiku of the Day:<\/p>\n

The debate’s on soon.
\nI’m sure hoping Joe Biden’s
\nless nervous than I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney, who continues to lie about covering pre-existing conditions, seems to live in a fact-free universe. Here’s what he told the Columbus Dispatch yesterday: We don\u2019t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don\u2019t have insurance. Well, if 26,100 deaths per year is the same as zero deaths, then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,124,21,20,52,556,175,126,71,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2786,2116,425,2802,2764,2119,830,1032,2819,1250,2785,2115,2117,2114,1420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8175,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}