Reply #79: From a public health or political standpoint? [View All]

[triguy46]

Most who die are the elderly and infirm, those least able to obtain quality health care, or sadly, too weak to fend off the complications. But, life happens. I think the issue is, (forgetting the bird flu hysteria), how many deaths would be avoidable if we had universal access to high quality health care. That is a political issue, and related to public health in epidemiological sense. But ultimately, as long as health care is a privielge and not a right, unnecessary deaths will continue.