Health Care Reform: Lives at Stake

A reminder from the Health Care for America Now blog:

We can’t make any excuses that will embolden the opponents of reform. There are real consequences for people each day that we put this off. Here is what happens every three weeks that we delay health care reform in America:

143,250 people will lose their health insurance coverage [pdf]

53,507 people will file for bankruptcy because they can’t pay their medical bills
1,265 people will die [pdf] because they lack coverage

It’s so easy to say lives are at stake over something. This time, they really are.