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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s made it to Politifact.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/08/raul-labrador/raul-labradors-claim-no-one-dies-lack-health-care-/">http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/08/raul-labrador/raul-labradors-claim-no-one-dies-lack-health-care-/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ron Force [mailto:ronforce@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 7, 2017 2:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shawn Clabough <shawnc@outtrack.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Labrador: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ron Force<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Shawn Clabough <<a href="mailto:shawnc@outtrack.com" target="_blank">shawnc@outtrack.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Moscow Cares<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 6, 2017 5:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Labrador: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">A statement made by U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador during a town hall meeting Friday morning has drawn criticism by those challenging his stance on health care. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">After a woman suggested that the lack of health care was essentially asking people to die, Labrador had a controversial answer at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">“That line is so indefensible,” Labrador said. “Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">A video of the statement, posted on YouTube by Tom Hansen, drew attention from national news outlets, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/06/labrador-health-care-acosta-sot-ac.cnn" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">including
CNN</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">An email to Labrador’s press secretary late Friday for comment did not receive an immediate response.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">Labrador on Thursday voted in favor of the American Health Care Act, pushed by the GOP through the House. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">“All across Idaho, families and small-business owners are struggling to keep up with skyrocketing health care costs caused by Obamacare,” Labrador said in a statement after the Thursday
vote. “The people of Idaho know Obamacare is a disaster and want it fully repealed. Since I was first elected to Congress, I’ve been working to repeal Obamacare and that includes opposing the first version of the American Health Care Act. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">“Over the last few months, I have been working to improve the AHCA, joining with my colleagues in the House Freedom Caucus. We have negotiated legislation that keeps our promise to the
American people to lower health care costs while also protecting those with per-existing conditions. Furthermore, unlike the first version of AHCA, our bill showed it had enough support to actually pass the House.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">The AHCA does set up a high-risk pool that was meant to offset the cost for those with pre-existing conditions, something that has brought heavy criticism from Democrats and sick people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">“The bill we passed today strikes down Obamacare’s prohibition on less expensive health care plans and the knot of insurance regulations and mandates that are making health coverage so
unaffordable,” Labrador said Friday. “Meanwhile, it sets up a national $130 billion invisible high-risk pool to help offset the cost for those with pre-existing conditions.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article145631354.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">At a town
hall in Meridian in April</span></a>, about 800 people attended, many of whom had questions about health care. Criticism came when when a woman asked Labrador whether he believed that health care is a right. Labrador said <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/politics-blog/article145800684.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">no.</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FACT CHECK: HAS ANYONE DIED?</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">The ongoing dispute over whether to fill the so-called Medicaid gap in Idaho has brought forward stories of people who actually died because of the lack of access to health care. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">The story of Jenny Steinke, a woman from Idaho Falls, has been frequently cited in Idaho.<a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article41425458.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"> Steinke
died at age 36 from an asthma attack after her condition had gone untreated</span></a> for years because she couldn’t afford health insurance, according to the (Idaho Falls) Post Register.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">But how often does lack of health insurance, or access to health care, cause people to die?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">That has been a subject of debate, with two fact-checking organizations — <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/dying-from-lack-of-insurance/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">FactCheck.org</span></a> and <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/sep/06/alan-grayson-claims-45000-people-die-year-because-/http:/www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/sep/06/alan-grayson-claims-45000-people-die-year-because-/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">Politifact</span></a> —
looking into it. Some question whether it’s possible to find a definite cause-and-effect relationship between insurance and death.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h4 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article145668554.html#storylink=related_inline" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">U.S.
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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">Researchers have found links for years between insurance and health outcomes. And several high-profile studies have drawn connections between lack of insurance and higher mortality rates.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">“Because people without health coverage are less likely than those with insurance to have regular outpatient care, they are more likely to be hospitalized for avoidable health problems
and to experience declines in their overall health,” <a href="http://kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">according to the Kaiser Family Foundation</span></a>, a nonpartisan
health care information nonprofit. “When they are hospitalized, uninsured people receive fewer diagnostic and therapeutic services and also have higher mortality rates than those with insurance.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">Some studies cited by the foundation looked at what happened to patients once they were hospitalized:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span class="m-5261199990538406120ngzsymsquarebullet">▪ </span> A 2009 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19875420" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">study published
in the Journal of Public Health </span></a>found a 60 percent higher mortality rate among uninsured American children in the hospital.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span class="m-5261199990538406120ngzsymsquarebullet">▪ </span> A<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208649/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"> study
published in 2011 </span></a>in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine concluded that “the uninsured have a higher mortality and receive fewer procedures when compared with privately insured patients treated at the same hospitals.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box"><span class="m-5261199990538406120ngzsymsquarebullet">▪ </span> A<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20359573" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"> 2010 study in
The American Journal of Surgery</span></a> hypothesized that insurance coverage wouldn’t affect the outcomes of patients with blunt and penetrating traumas, such as car crash injuries and gunshot wounds. But the researchers concluded that insurance coverage
was actually “a potent predictor” of how well a patient would do. They found a higher death rate among uninsured patients.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">A frequently cited study <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775760/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">published in 2009 in the American Journal of
Public Health </span></a>found a 25 percent higher risk of death among uninsured compared with privately insured adults. The researchers calculated 44,789 deaths among Americans age 18 to 64 in a single year that they said were tied to lack of health insurance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:18.0pt;box-sizing:border-box">“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors and baseline health,” the study’s lead
author, Dr. Andrew Wilper, <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">said at the time</span></a>. “We doctors have many
new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease — but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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