Vigil to Mourn Future Trumpcare Deaths
Start: Wednesday, March 22, 2017• 7:30 PM
Join us as we hold a vigil to mourn the deaths of the Iowans and Americans that will die if Trumpcare is passed. Almost 200 Iowans are projected to die each year, 2000 total over the next decade. We need to make sure David Young knows what he would be voting for.
The US House of Representatives votes on Trumpcare this Thursday. If passed, 14 Million people will lose health insurance next year and 24 Million by 2026. Based on studies done in Massachusetts 17,000 of the 14 Million who lose insurance will die next year (and each year thereafter) rising to 27,000 people a year by 2026. That is more people then are murdered in the United States each year.
In Iowa 170 are projected to die next year due to Trumpcare rising each year to 250 by 2026. That is over 3 times more people then are murdered in Iowa each year (72 were murdered in 2015). That would be 250 of our fellow Iowans, friends and neighborhoods, essentially killed by Trumpcare and the Congress People who supported it.
Link to the Massachusetts study: http://annals.org/aim/article/1867050/changes-mortality-after-massachusetts-health-care-reform-quasi-experimental-study