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Study Links Deaths of 17,000 Children to Lack of Insurance

As the legislation was unveiled, a new study was released showing a lack of health insurance led to the deaths of nearly 17,000 children over the span of less than two decades. Using millions of hospital records dating from 1988 to 2005, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Childrens Center found uninsured children were 60 percent more likely to die than those with insurance. The studys authors say the real toll could be even higher, because their research only covered children who were hospitalized. The study follows last months findings by a Harvard University research team that around 44,000 people die every year because they lack health insurance.