In the U.S., People die every 30 minutes from lack of health care and lack of health insurance

There is a great deal of right wing outrage over a current ad running that correctly accuses Mitts on R-money of vulture or vampire capitalism practices that lead to the closing of a steel plant, the bankruptcy that bilked the plant's creditors while Romney and Bain investors looted the assets, and the loss of jobs and benefits, including health insurance and pensions that resulted in the death of a man's wife.  It also resulted in a LOT of other harm to other people, and to that community.
It was entirely due to galloping greed and the very worst excesses and abuses of capitalism, and Mitt Romney made the decisions.
I'm sick of reading and listening to conservatives running around like screaming pre-teen girls at a slumber party over the health care reform they call Obamacare. 
I'm sick of conservatives failing to make the distinction between universal health care that in various forms (including some very similar forms to the ACA) is found in EVERY industrialized and developed country as if it were the worst excesses of a dictatorship like socialism of the Stalin-era Soviet Union. They are not the same or even remotely similar.
Especially, I'm sick of the claims by conservatives like the one I saw this evening on Current TV, but that I've seen by many other conservatives, in this case, by Jack Burkman, a Republican strategist.  Burkman was commenting on the new ad how Mitt Romney during his Bain tenure was responsible for closing a steel mill, depriving a long term employee of both health care benefits and retirement benefits, that in turn contributed to his wife dying of cancer due to lack of health care and lack of health care insurance.
Burkman made a statement that was TOTALLY FALSE, offensively so, that there are no people in the United States, NONE, who are denied medical care or who die from lack of available medical care, including lack of cancer treatments like chemotherapy. 
This has been the claim of a variety of rightwing liars, from Governor Rick Perry of Texas, in his rejection of ACA benefits for the HUGE uninsured and untreated lower income and below poverty level population of Texas.  Texas has the WORST record of untreated and uninsured people, dead last of the 50 states and DC.  Burkman, and too many of those who screech about Obamacare make the claim that this kind of health care reform and helath care provision id unnecessary because we ALREADY have health care for everyone. 
Here is what Burkman said: "Where I disagree with you, Cenk, is that you are giving the impression that because she didn't have health insurance, there was no treatment available for the cancer.  That's never been the case in the United States, or at least not in the last 50 years or so."
That is total BULLSHIT.  IT IS HORRIFICALLY FACTUALLY INACCURATE.  PEOPLE ARE DYING AT THE RATE OF 1 EVERY 30 MINUTES FROM LACK OF HEALTH CARE AND LACK OF HEALTH CARE INSURANCE.  THAT was why there was a desperate need for health care reform.  In NO other civilized country does that happen.  In every civilized country which is AHEAD of the United States in any measure of performance, including economic measures, those countries do better than we do because they have a healthier population, due to better, less costly, widely available health care.
The people in those countries are not less free, by any SANE measurement, because of having a health care system in which their national and regional or state-equivalent governments play a role.  The screech that this is "OHMYGOD Socialism!!!!!!!!!!!!" or "OHMYGOD the Government is taking over HEALTHCARE!!!!!!!!!!!" or "OHMYGOD This is the end of our country and our representative government as we know it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  or "OHMYGOD! Death panels will harm my special needs son or pull the plug on grandma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is crap,  it is without factual accuracy and it is without any substantive or even superficial merit whatsoever.  Those are deliberate, intentional lies and exaggerations, of the propaganda variety.
We do NOT have the best health care system in the world, and we have increasingly fewer and fewer people who have access to the care that we do have.  The reality is that we have large numbers of people who cannot afford health care, or who have to go into bankruptcy and /or lose their homes to try to afford care for treatable illness.  We have the worst cost management results, with the least and worst care of any comparable country.  Our communities, including businesses and the local economy generally, as well as the tax base for government is DESTABILIZED by this.  Even our ability to provide people to our military is adversely affected, which in turn weakens our ability for national defense.
But most of all, we have a lot of people who do NOT receive care, cannot seek care because of financial reasons, and who die as a result.  I refer you to the statistics associated with the free C.A.R.E. clinics like those put on by the National Association of Free Clinics (N.A.F.C.), when resources permit, all over this country.  While terribly important, the best that these clinics can do often is to provide a one day / one visit stopgap to a 365 days a year problem. It helps, but it is not the same as the kind of cancer treatment an ill person needs long term, like the woman in the ad who died.
From the Harvard Gazette:
Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.
The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “We doctors have many new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease — but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.”

The study, which analyzed data from national surveys carried out by the Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), assessed death rates after taking into account education, income, and many other factors, including smoking, drinking, and obesity. It estimated that lack of health insurance causes 44,789 excess deaths annually.

Deaths associated with lack of health insurance now exceed those caused by many common killers such as kidney disease. An increase in the number of uninsured and an eroding medical safety net for the disadvantaged likely explain the substantial increase in the number of deaths, as the uninsured are more likely to go without needed care. Another factor contributing to the widening gap in the risk of death between those who have insurance and those who do not is the improved quality of care for those who can get it.

Steffie Woolhandler, study co-author, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, noted: “Historically, every other developed nation has achieved universal health care through some form of nonprofit national health insurance. Our failure to do so means that all Americans pay higher health care costs, and 45,000 pay with their lives.” “The Institute of Medicine, using older studies, estimated that one American dies every 30 minutes from lack of health insurance,” remarked David Himmelstein, study co-author, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance.
“Even this grim figure is an underestimate — now one dies every 12 minutes.”