Comments on: Tallying the Uninsured Dead http://www.liberadio.com/2009/11/06/tallying-the-uninsured-dead/ with Mary Mancini & Freddie O'Connell Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: eldano http://www.liberadio.com/2009/11/06/tallying-the-uninsured-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-174972 eldano Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:54:01 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=5747#comment-174972 It matters if you are trying to be effective vs. being more effective. Saving one person is great. Saving as many people as we can and delivering the best quality of life at the best cost is way better. Here is how he said he got the nubmer, from the linked article: Grayson calculated his numbers via an Urban Institute study that documented the number of uninsured in each congressional district and a study published in the American Journal of Public Health [pdf] that figured the percentage of Americans who will die next year because they have no health insurance. "So what we've done is very simple," Grayson said. "We've taken one number and the other number, and through the magic of multiplication we know how many of those people will die. And I think it's time we call attention to that." Not sure how good the other numbers are, but it's a quick and dirty estimate. He also didn't recalculate that number to figure out how many would still be uninsured. It matters if you are trying to be effective vs. being more effective. Saving one person is great. Saving as many people as we can and delivering the best quality of life at the best cost is way better.

Here is how he said he got the nubmer, from the linked article:
Grayson calculated his numbers via an Urban Institute study that documented the number of uninsured in each congressional district and a study published in the American Journal of Public Health [pdf] that figured the percentage of Americans who will die next year because they have no health insurance. “So what we’ve done is very simple,” Grayson said. “We’ve taken one number and the other number, and through the magic of multiplication we know how many of those people will die. And I think it’s time we call attention to that.”

Not sure how good the other numbers are, but it’s a quick and dirty estimate. He also didn’t recalculate that number to figure out how many would still be uninsured.

]]> By: Mary Mancini http://www.liberadio.com/2009/11/06/tallying-the-uninsured-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-174961 Mary Mancini Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:04:47 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=5747#comment-174961 Does it matter? Even if one person dies because of inadequate health insurance isn't that one person too many? Does it matter? Even if one person dies because of inadequate health insurance isn’t that one person too many?

]]> By: Andrew Hilltopper http://www.liberadio.com/2009/11/06/tallying-the-uninsured-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-174958 Andrew Hilltopper Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:52 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=5747#comment-174958 What was the mysterious formula that our resident genius mathematician Grayson used to determine these bs claims? What was the mysterious formula that our resident genius mathematician Grayson used to determine these bs claims?

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