I wonder how the pro-lifers who are against health care reform will react to this…
Excerpt:
Lack of adequate health care insurance may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 hospitalized U.S. children over the past two decades, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
“Thousands of children die needlessly each year because we lack a health system that provides them health insurance. This should not be,” says co-investigator Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., director of Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins and medical director of the Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care. “In a country as wealthy as ours, the need to provide health insurance to the millions of children who lack it is a moral, not an economic issue,” he adds.
Read more here: http://www.examiner.com/x-23316-Madison-Independent-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Study-Lack-of-health-care-contributed-to-17000-child-deaths