claim: "each year, 18,000 people die in america because they don't have health care."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: may 8, 2017 ... labrador. "nobody dies because they don't have access to health care." ....  because of varied results from academic papers, we have struggled since 2009  about how to rate claims that a specific number of people die every year because  they were uninsured -- a common talking point for democrats.
evidence_2: sep 24, 2009 ... a new study from researchers with the harvard medical school found that 45,000  deaths a year can be attributed to the lack of health insurance. ... study and  another examining current population survey data, found that 18,000 people ( age 25 to 64) died because they lacked health insurance in 2000.
evidence_3: sep 17, 2009 ... nearly 45000 people die in the united states each year -- one every 12 minutes - - in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, ...  the institute of medicine later used that data in its 2002 estimate showing about  18,000 people a year died because they lacked coverage.
evidence_4: sep 17, 2009 ... nearly 45000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance,  according to a new study published online today by the american journal of ... at  harvard medical school and cambridge health alliance, found that uninsured,  working-age americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than ...
evidence_5: sep 6, 2013 ... alan grayson said 45,000 people die every year because they don't have health  insurance in an august interview with central florida news 13. u.s. rep. alan  grayson, who in 2009 described the gop health care plan as "if you do get sick,  die quickly," is reaching into his bag of old talking points to defend ...