The Art Of Dying

Usually, when the media mention an organization as being non-partisan you can bank on it not being true.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.


Such is the case of Families USA and a recent(?) study reported on by Mike "None The" Wiser for the Cedar Rapids Gazette and its affiliates. 

Report calculates toll on uninsured

The New York Times has called Families USA, "an unusual advocacy group" and other sources have written about connections to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). 

As for their study that purports to show 26,100 people nationwide died in 2010 because of no health insurance coverage, Forbes.com reports the key piece of data behind this estimate is 19 years old.

Heritage Foundation, a Conservative research and educational institution, found in 2009 that the liberal health advocacy group (Families USA) was trying to claim that Census Bureau was underestimating the number of uninsured.

At that time, Heritage analyst Robert Moffit told the Des Moines Register -- “The number of people who are persistently or chronically uninsured is relatively small.”