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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
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They only stratified the study by age? No freaking wonder they got higher mortality rates for the uninsured. Mortality goes up as income goes down. You could try to fool yourself by thinking it's primarily due to lack of access to health insurance, but it's more closely tied to thing such as (not ordered by importance)
1. Higher homicide rate
2. Higher substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc.)
3. Poorer nutrition, exercise
http://cougarguard.com/forum/showpos...2&postcount=36
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411...ured_dying.pdf
Since a higher percentage of uninsured are poor, unless you stratify your sample by household income, you are going to get some seriously skewed results.