Simple question number two, not unrelated. Why is it that in the United States, despite the fact that we have 85 million people uninsured or underinsured, that Some 60,000 people a year die unnecessarily because they don't get to a doctor when they should. because they're uninsured or underinsured, when we don't have enough doctors or nurses or dentists or mental health counselors, when our life expectancy in the richest country in the history … (00:58–01:05)
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Asserts that 60,000 people die annually in the U.S. due to lack of timely medical care.
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