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Last year, 18,000 Americans died from a single tragedy. It was not from front-page threats like terrorism or bird flu. No single disease or event claimed their lives. Their death certificates listed hundreds of familiar accidents and ailments, including cancer, pneumonia, heart disease and diabetes. While the diseases and injuries that claimed them were varied, these 18,000 Americans shared two things in common—they had no health insurance and they would have lived if they had been insured. Eighteen thousand preventable deaths is a staggering number—yet these people died without headlines or any significant public acknowledgement. How does this happen in America? Who are these people? Find out the answers to these questions and learn how you can fight this injustice by reading the full text of this article in the May/June 2006 issue of Horizons. Call 800/524-2612 Mark Earnest is a practicing internist and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He is an elder at Central Presbyterian Church in Denver and vice president of the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved, which is currently housed at Central. Mark is also the director of a new initiative at the medical school to train students in leadership and advocacy skills. |
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