9th leading cause of death? Lack of coverage

This Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance study estimates that 45,000 deaths are caused each year in the US by lack of health insurance.
Meanwhile, to get on the CDC's list of leading causes of death in the US, the annual number of victims per year has to top Septicemia, number 10 at 34,234. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis comes in at number 9, with 45,344 -- right about even with the study's estimate of coverage-linked deaths. (Caveat: the Institute of Medicine, in 2002, found a much lower rate of death linked to lack of insurance, but still considered it enough to constitute a "crisis")

There's still time to add your picture to Move On's photo-petition to the President reminding him that his base supports a strong public option. And Paul Krugman assures you if we get health reform, it will work.