<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/528a7b62-f8b4-4fbe-8b5e-a4ebf775f7e8/3FB2CFCD-A2FD-4465-AB90-394ECF2B0466/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090918/ts_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths_2" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090918/ts_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths_2" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090918/ts_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths_2"><H1 id="yn-story-title">Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090918/ts_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths_2"><P>WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they <SPAN id="lw_1253276660_0" class="yshortcuts">lack health insurance</SPAN> and can not get good care, <SPAN id="lw_1253276660_1" class="yshortcuts">Harvard Medical School researchers</SPAN> found in an analysis released on Thursday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090918/ts_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths_2"><P> "We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction ... than <SPAN id="lw_1253276660_2" class="yshortcuts">drunk driving</SPAN> and homicide combined," Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at <SPAN id="lw_1253276660_3" class="yshortcuts">Harvard</SPAN>, said in an interview with Reuters.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090918/ts_nm/us_usa_healthcare_deaths_2"><P> The Harvard study, funded by a federal research grant, was published in the online edition of the <SPAN id="lw_1253276660_6" class="yshortcuts">American Journal of Public Health</SPAN>. It was released by <SPAN id="lw_1253276660_7" class="yshortcuts">Physicians for a National Health Program</SPAN>, which favors government-backed or "single-payer" health insurance.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3FB2CFCD-A2FD-4465-AB90-394ECF2B0466/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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