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The failure to enact health care reform this year will lead in the next decade to approximately 5,300 premature deaths of people between 25 and 64 years old in Indiana according to a report released today by the consumer health group Families USA.
At the national level the Families USA report, “Lives on the Line: The Deadly Cost of Delaying Health Reform,” warns that the number of deaths would grow from 68 per day in 2010 to 84 per day in 2019.
Families USA held a teleconference February 26 to release the report and featured doctors and pediatricians, including Dr. Sarah Stelzner of Indiana.
To find out how inaction would affect American families, Families USA generated state-level estimates of the number of deaths that will occur due to a lack of health coverage if health reform doesn’t pass. In addition, our report quantifies the number of Americans that died due to a lack of health coverage since the last effort to pass health reform in 1994.
Read the report for more details.
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