"Research released this week in the American Journal of Public Health estimates that 45,000 deaths per year in the United States are associated with the lack of health insurance."
Be strong. Be brave. Don't let that number, 45000, get to you, because it does not apply to you. You have insurance, you are covered, so you have nothing to worry about. Your mother is insured, your children are insured, and those 45,000 people are...well, OTHER people. Not US. We have to be strong, to remain unmoved by such numbers. Focus on what is important: your out of pocket expenses, and how they would SURELY go up if we brought the millions of uninsured under the safe umbrella of coverage. Think about yourself having to wait in lines. You hate waiting, right? Remember that. And be strong. Throughout history, it was the strong who survived, those with assets, who knew how to hang onto them. When the Titanic went down, most of the lifeboats were only half occupied. Those inside were too cold, scared, and traumatized to risk their safety to pull any others into their boats. More people would have meant more risk to the survivors, so they braced themselves and were strong. They ignored the cries of those left in the frigid waters until those cries faded away. And they survived until the morning, when the Carpathia arrived. They survived because they were strong, and they focused on themselves, instead of those weak people in the water. Now is your chance to also be strong, and just focus on yourself. 1,517 people died that night (much less than the 45,000 that die each year due to being uninsured), but the strong survived. And you will survive too, because you are a survivor.
Right?
Matthew 25:36
