Not having health insurance significantly increases the risk of dying. Research sees an increase in the mortality rate in the range of 50 to 100 annually per 100,000 population.
So how many will die? Research results translate to a range of 86,000 deaths to 172,000 deaths across 10 years if 23 million lose health insurance. And hundreds of thousands more if that inhumanity continues.
The best brief summary of the topic I’ve seen surveys the research from Harvard, the Institute of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Society. It is at obamacarefacts.com/… . The authors there conclude that,
We can safely say (that with an uninsured rate of about 40 million, and remember that is dropping under the ACA) that somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000 deaths occur each year due to lack of health insurance.
There have been 1,445 prison executions in the US since 1976, 41 years. This new death sentence will execute between 250 and 500 TIMES this brutal number of prison executions. And in this case the victims are truly innocent. 10,000 live in my little Iowa town. So Trump’s plan to slash health care spending means 5 to 10 in my town will die each year--the cheerful Iowans I see at Hy-Vee, in our square, at the post office. Sad. Sad. Sad.