The best estimate of the annual death toll among Americans of working age due to lack of insurance or under-insurance is at least 20,000, according to studies conducted over the past decade by medical researchers, and is almost certainly rising as more and more people lose their coverage as costs continue to go up.
20,000 deaths per year. Put in terms that even the wingnuts can understand: that's the equivalent of more than six and a half 9/11 attacks every year. And we spare no expense in the government-run program to smoke out evildoers, right?
But what I hear a lot of via email is that these people should get a job and stop freeloading.