By Sherman Dorn on March 4, 2010
Two years ago, a friend I’ve known for more than 40 years who works at the Urban Institute updated the Institute of Medicine’s estimate of the annual excess deaths in the U.S. due to lack of insurance. In 2008, the updated estimate was 22,000 annual excess deaths. That’s an average of one preventable death about […]
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By Sherman Dorn on March 4, 2010
The St. Pete Times‘s PolitiFact comes down today with the same ruling that I would on Governor Charlie Crist’s statement that the high school graduation rate in the cohort just graduated last year is the “highest it’s ever been.” They rate the claim as Mostly True, and I agree. And their reporting of my remarks […]
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Every 24 minutes: why it’s time to vote on the health care bill
By Sherman Dorn on March 4, 2010
Two years ago, a friend I’ve known for more than 40 years who works at the Urban Institute updated the Institute of Medicine’s estimate of the annual excess deaths in the U.S. due to lack of insurance. In 2008, the updated estimate was 22,000 annual excess deaths. That’s an average of one preventable death about […]
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