<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8df8263a-ca26-4f22-ade5-c478dc2ec16e/50BF1948-56D3-4AA7-BC8F-58A5DE1336CB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm" href="http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.health-care-reform.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm"><TR><TD><TABLE width="587" height="26" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bordercolor="#111111" border="0" id="AutoNumber19"><TBODY><TR><TD width="587" height="8" colspan="3"><P><FONT face="Verdana"><FONT color="#006699"><B>the medical system has played a large role in</B></FONT> undermining the health of Americans.  According to several research studies in the last decade, a total of 225,000 Americans per year have died as a result of their medical treatments: </FONT><FONT face="Verdana">     </FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE width="587" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bordercolor="#111111" border="0" id="AutoNumber20"><TBODY><TR><TD width="225"><IMG width="232" vspace="6" height="350" border="0" src="http://www.health-care-reform.net/images/SkelT.jpg" /></TD><TD width="15"><IMG width="12" height="12" border="0" src="http://www.health-care-reform.net/images/12.gif" /></TD><TD width="336"><FONT face="Verdana" color="#006699"><B>• 12,000 deaths per year due to</B> </FONT> <FONT face="Verdana">unnecessary surgery</FONT><P> <FONT face="Verdana"><FONT color="#006699"><B>• 7000 deaths per year due to</B></FONT> medication errors in hospitals</FONT></P><P> <FONT face="Verdana"><SPAN><B> <FONT color="#006699">• 20,000 deaths per year due to</FONT></B> other errors in hospitals</SPAN></FONT></P><P><FONT face="Verdana"><B><FONT color="#006699">• 80,000 deaths per year due to</FONT></B> infections in hospitals</FONT></P><P> <FONT face="Verdana"><B><FONT color="#006699">• 106,000 deaths per year due to</FONT></B> negative effects of drugs</FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm"> Thus, America's healthcare-system-induced deaths are the<B> </B>third leading cause of the death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm"><FONT color="#006699"><B><FONT face="Verdana"> One of the key problems of the U.S. health</FONT></B></FONT><FONT face="Verdana"><B><FONT color="#006699"> system is that as many as</FONT> </B>40 million people in the U.S. do not have access to healthcare.  The social and economic inequalities that are an integral part of American society are mirrored in the inequality of access to the health care system.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/50BF1948-56D3-4AA7-BC8F-58A5DE1336CB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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