Health Care in Crisis: Who’s Listening?
For about 22,000 people died in 2006 in the US because they didn’t have health insurance, according to an estimated people by the Urban Institute. This is up substantially from 2000 when the Institute of Medicine announced as many as of 18,000 people died because of the lack of health care coverage. And while the numbers of deaths grew and the total number of the uninsured rose over those six years, neither George W. Bush nor the Republican majorities in the Congress made a single effort to alleviate the crisis