Jim DeMint/Heritage Foundation: "Let 9,800 people per year die!!"

• Former Republican Senator from South Carolina and current president of the Heritage Foundation Jim DeMint in an Op-Ed at the Washington Examiner today:

Let the subsidies die

...This should be an easy choice for opponents of Obamacare. The end of federally subsidized exchanges will be the first step in freeing patients, doctors, and insurers from government control. Unbelievably, however, some are considering legislation to extend the subsidies, should the Supreme Court block them.

It would be uncaring and unfair for Congress to force taxpayers to continue funding Obamacare's subsidies that do nothing to lower the real cost of coverage nor increase healthcare choices for most Americans. Extending the subsidies would be political malpractice, not just a mere Band-Aid upon an infected wound. Rather than diagnosing the underlying disease — a broken, unsustainable system — such a patch would allow Congress and the president to avoid making the tough decisions about cost and quality of care.

(etc, etc, "freedom", etc, etc)

• Amicus brief filed on behalf of multiple public health scholars* and the American Public Health Association:

A brief filed on behalf of multiple public health scholars and the American Public Health Association, estimates that “over 9,800 additional Americans” will die if the justices side with the King plaintiffs. It reaches this conclusion by starting with an Urban Institute study showing that 8.2 million people will become uninsured in this scenario. As other research examining Obamacare-like reforms in the state of Massachusetts found that “for every 830 adults gaining insurance coverage there was one fewer death per year,” that translates to between 9,800 and 9,900 deaths if the justices back the plaintiffs in King.

*Including...

Craig H. Blakely, Ph.D., M.P.H Professor and Dean School of Public Health and Information Sciences University of Louisville Paul Brandt-Rauf, DrPH, M.D., Sc.D. Professor and Dean School of Public Health Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D. Dean Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health Yale School of Public Health Ayman El-Mohandes, M.D., M.P.H. Dean CUNY School of Public Health Gregory Evans, Ph.D., M.P.H. Dean Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health Georgia Southern University A-2 John R. Finnegan, Jr., Ph.D. Professor and Dean University of Minnesota School of Public Health Assistant Vice President for Public Health at the University of Minnesota Sandro Galea, M.D., DrPH Professor and Dean School of Public Health Boston University Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., M.S., M.P.H. Michael and Lori Milken Dean Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Milken Institute School of Public Health The George Washington University Jody Heymann, M.D., Ph.D. Dean UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Michael J. Klag, M.D., M.P.H. Dean Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Richard S. Kurz, Ph.D. Professor and Dean UNTHSC School of Public Health Philip C. Nasca, M.S., Ph.D., FACE Dean, School of Public Health Professor of Epidemiology University at Albany A-3 Michael G. Perri, Ph.D., ABPP Dean, College of Public Health and Health Professions The Robert G. Frank Endowed Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology University of Florida Martin A. Philbert, Ph.D. Dean and Professor School of Public Health University of Michigan George G. Rhoads, M.D., M.P.H. Interim Dean Rutgers School of Public Health Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH Dean Alumni Distinguished Professor UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Joshua M. 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