It’s safe to say that lacking insurance can be deadly, but if you want to look at statistics in Pennsylvania, you could also claim that government provided insurance kills more. In a suprisingly scary report, it was discovered that people receiving care via government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid actually have a lower survival rate than those who are uninsured altogether. Data shows that government insurance provides a much lower standard of care than does private insurance. This would beg the question, why are so many clamoring for the government to take over our health care system when it looks as though a greater mortality rate will be the result? Read more here