Expansion of Medicaid may cut death rates | StarTribune.com

Expansion of Medicaid may cut death rates | StarTribune.com:
People say we have the best health care in the world and yet the statistics show we are well below other industrialized countries in many, if not most, key health indicators.  The US culture that has a history of treating the poor like they deserve it and do not deserve access to food, shelter and basic health care is behind those statistical results.  This article and the study it reports add evidence to this supposition.  Expanding coverage for poor people reduced death rates.  Sad thing is there are all too many in this country who see that as a bad thing. They believe those people deserved to die and they do not deserve to have tax payer money used to provide them with health care.  In countries with universal health care like Canada and Britain the man on the street responds to questions on using tax money for health care by saying "it's the right thing to do".  In this country all too often the response is "I don't want my hard earned money used to help those people..they made their bed let them sleep in it".