...during a speech in Cleveland on 20 July 2007, President Bush had this to say about health care:
"I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room."
I remember reading this statement and thinking that it could only come from someone who had never had to use US emergency facilities. Now Ronni Bennett, from whom the quote above is taken draws attention to a study that confirms my initial feelings.
“When compared with an insured white patient, black patients with
equivalent injuries but without insurance had a 78 percent higher risk
of dying; for uninsured Hispanics, the risk was 130 percent higher.” (Newsweek)
Read her full story here.
