Health care is so politicized in this country now that it's come to this: Someone had to conduct a study and issue a report to affirm the premise that you're less likely to die prematurely if you can afford medical treatment. Really. Here's the last paragraph of the article I just linked to…
Dr. Benjamin Sommers, the Harvard University School of Public Health assistant professor who led the study, agreed, saying, "It seems pretty clear that expanding insurance coverage will lead to gains in saving lives." Obamacare's Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) component is also conducting its own experiment to examine the effects of expanding health care, and will be key in determining whether the Massachusetts results were state-specific. But until then, Jonathan Gruber, an MIT professor who worked on both the Massachusetts and national health care reforms, says, "We should basically be back to our presumption that health insurance improves health."
We may soon have a controversial finding that you're more likely to keep your teeth if you can afford to go to a dentist now and then. At least it would be controversial if Barack Obama says it's so.