Letter to the Editor: Invisible Deaths

With all the hysteria over the deaths that will supposedly ensue with government "rationing" of health care, it is worth nothing the findings of a 2004 report from the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, which estimated that 18,000 unnecessary deaths occur each year for lack of health insurance. Since that time, the number of uninsured has increased substantially. These deaths seem to be invisible and of little consequence to those in the Congress and in the public who loudly oppose needed reforms to our broken health-care system.

Jerome Puskin, Letter to the Editor, Washington Post