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spacehome on March 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)

It looks like the average across the whole population in the U.S. is 8 in 1000 people will die each year [1].

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN

ricardobeat on March 1, 2014 | [–]

Maybe the actual stat is that one in those eight people dies due to being uninsured?

bird_in_hand on March 2, 2014 | [–]

I bet a huge percentage of people dying are over 65 and have Medicare. You need numbers for those outside of that safety net to compare.

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