Some of the costs of not having a public option are simple to calculate, but immeasurable in value. Infant mortality rates in the United States are 6.37 deaths/1,000 live births. A sampling of other industrialized nations with public health care finds the United Kingdom at 5.01 deaths / 1,000 live births. Canada at 4.63. France at 3.41. If the United States infant mortality matched that of the United Kingdom, just under 6,000 fewer infants would have died in the United States last year. If we could match France around 13,000 fewer infants would have died.
That paragraph is part of an analysis of not having a public health insurance option by DailyKos writer Devilstower. People with right leaning politics tend to be against the public option due to it being part of big government. They’re also against abortion because they’re “pro life.”
Dissonance for dinner anyone?
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