Comments on: Does Lack Of Insurance Cause Premature Death? http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/ The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:23:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Does Lack of Health Insurance Cause Premature Death? Probably Not | www.statehousecall.org http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31382 Does Lack of Health Insurance Cause Premature Death? Probably Not | www.statehousecall.org Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:31:38 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31382 [...] This is only the latest in a series of ridiculous claims that have been injected into the health insurance debate. What follows is a brief review, some of which has appeared earlier at the Health Affairs blog. [...] [...] This is only the latest in a series of ridiculous claims that have been injected into the health insurance debate. What follows is a brief review, some of which has appeared earlier at the Health Affairs blog. [...]

]]> By: Does Lack of Insurance Cause Premature Death? Probably Not. | Linda Gorman And John Goodman | NCPA http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31358 Does Lack of Insurance Cause Premature Death? Probably Not. | Linda Gorman And John Goodman | NCPA Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:57:09 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31358 [...] This is only the latest in a series of ridiculous claims that have been injected into the health insurance debate. What follows is a brief review, some of which has appeared earlier at the Health Affairs blog. [...] [...] This is only the latest in a series of ridiculous claims that have been injected into the health insurance debate. What follows is a brief review, some of which has appeared earlier at the Health Affairs blog. [...]

]]> By: THarmony89 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31128 THarmony89 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:49:56 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31128 Excellent post. It's crazy to think that those numbers are correct and it also makes ya think what would happen if everyone was uninsured?? TH Excellent post. It’s crazy to think that those numbers are correct and it also makes ya think what would happen if everyone was uninsured??

TH

]]> By: Mlynn http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31044 Mlynn Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:41:12 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31044 Great post. It's amazing to me that these studies can get away with such obvious holes in their research. Thanks for shedding further light on the issue! Great post. It’s amazing to me that these studies can get away with such obvious holes in their research. Thanks for shedding further light on the issue!

]]> By: Barbara Starfield http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31035 Barbara Starfield Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:35:16 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31035 John Goodman’s blog, complaining about serious errors in many studies, commited some of his own. Arguing that things are better in the US than in Canada, he cites data on the performance of procedures, not achievement of health. On almost every measure of health, Canadians do better----even after taking into account SES and race----and on some measures of health, considerably better. There are also some excellent studies of the superiority of the Canadian system in dealing with inequities in breast cancer mortality. Barbara Starfield John Goodman’s blog, complaining about serious errors in many studies, commited some of his own. Arguing that things are better in the US than in Canada, he cites data on the performance of procedures, not achievement of health. On almost every measure of health, Canadians do better—-even after taking into account SES and race—-and on some measures of health, considerably better. There are also some excellent studies of the superiority of the Canadian system in dealing with inequities in breast cancer mortality.

Barbara Starfield

]]> By: RMcCullough http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31016 RMcCullough Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:11:55 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31016 Thanks for posting this. It looks like Dr. Goodman is exposing junk service. Thanks for posting this. It looks like Dr. Goodman is exposing junk service.

]]> By: Health Care BS http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31013 Health Care BS Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:22:41 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31013 <strong>ANOTHER FAUX STUDY FROM THE PNHP CREW...</strong> I have written before about the phony studies produced by Steffie Woolhandler and her fellow single-payer zealots at Physicians for a National Health Program. Well, they’re at it again. This time, they’re claiming that 45,000 Americans die.... ANOTHER FAUX STUDY FROM THE PNHP CREW…

I have written before about the phony studies produced by Steffie Woolhandler and her fellow single-payer zealots at Physicians for a National Health Program. Well, they’re at it again.
This time, they’re claiming that 45,000 Americans die….

]]> By: johnrgraham http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31012 johnrgraham Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:52:30 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31012 The article is a little opaque, so I might have this wrong, but the authors estimated 35,327 deaths associated with lack of health insurance when considering all Americans aged between 18-14. However, when they estimated without “age stratification”, they estimated 44,789. Table 1 segments the sample by age: the younger groups are more likely to be uninsured than the older ones (29% for those aged 17-24 versus 9% for those aged 55-64). They are also less likely to have died at the end of the period (1% for those aged 17-24 and 11% for those aged 55-64). So, if the model assumes (utterly unrealistically) that lack of health insurance at the initial interview persists, and adjusts the death rate as the sample ages, the more accurate conclusion is that aging is related to increased likelihood of death! The article is a little opaque, so I might have this wrong, but the authors estimated 35,327 deaths associated with lack of health insurance when considering all Americans aged between 18-14. However, when they estimated without “age stratification”, they estimated 44,789.

Table 1 segments the sample by age: the younger groups are more likely to be uninsured than the older ones (29% for those aged 17-24 versus 9% for those aged 55-64). They are also less likely to have died at the end of the period (1% for those aged 17-24 and 11% for those aged 55-64).

So, if the model assumes (utterly unrealistically) that lack of health insurance at the initial interview persists, and adjusts the death rate as the sample ages, the more accurate conclusion is that aging is related to increased likelihood of death!

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]]> By: johnrgraham http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/comment-page-1/#comment-31002 johnrgraham Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:21:28 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=2196#comment-31002 Ever since the 18,000 figure came out I was surprised to see that nobody pointed out that over 2 million people die in the U.S. every year, so ascribing statistical significance to an estimate much less than one percent of the total is pretty risky. You'd need a more powerful model than I could design! Ever since the 18,000 figure came out I was surprised to see that nobody pointed out that over 2 million people die in the U.S. every year, so ascribing statistical significance to an estimate much less than one percent of the total is pretty risky. You’d need a more powerful model than I could design!

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