The tax bill, which is inexplicably also a healthcare bill, will come to a vote in the Senate either late tonight or tomorrow.
This bill, if passed, will kill about 16 thousand people per year. This is because it will kick 13 million people off their health insurance, and studies have shown that for every 830 uninsured, 1 additional person dies per year.
Here are some things that are less deadly to Americans than this bill:
– Guns (about 13k a year die from gun homicide)
– DUI (that kills 10k a year)
– Heroin (it kills 13k a year)
– Melanoma (kills 10k a year)
– Isis (each year it will kill 13 times more people than Isis has ever killed)
– 9/11 (this bill is equal in death toll to about 5 annual 9/11’s, actually)
– The Iraq war (this bill will kill about 4 times as many Americans per year as were killed in the entire Iraq war)
– World war I (it killed an average of 13k Americans per year)This is why healthcare accessibility is the battle I’ve picked.
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