Political Quotes

“One of the studies my office cited was published on June 22, 2017, by the Center for American Progress. It was coauthored by a Harvard professor of social epidemiology, two medical students who graduated from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and two policy specialists at the Center for American Progress. I won't go through all of the details, but I will say this, quoting from PolitiFact: The Harvard-Center for American Progress study projected that there would be one excess death for every 830 people who lose coverage as a result of the AHCA. The Republican bill. Using Congressional Budget Office projections of the impact of the House version of the bill, the authors estimated an additional 217,000 deaths over the next decade, or 21,700 per year. That is not Bernie Sanders; that is a study done at Harvard. The second piece of evidence Sanders' office cited was an op-ed by yet more health policy specialists who are affiliated with Harvard--David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, who are professors of public health at Hunter College-City University of New York as well as lecturers at Harvard Medical School. Adapting the findings of the 2012 study to a scenario in which 20 million Americans lost coverage--which turned out to be lower than what the CBO found for the House bill-- They estimated 23 million would lose coverage-- Himmelstein and Woolhandler estimated that there would be 43,956 deaths annually due to the GOP's health policy changes.…”