It takes too long to get to the answer, which is definitively yes. Which is to say that depriving people of insurance is to kill them.
The government is shut down over health care. But does insurance save lives? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/09/government-shut-down-health-insurance-deaths/
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The WaPo's framing, coincidentally, distracts from the fact that medical care saves lives, not health insurance. But until Americans successfully demand universal coverage, a rapacious insurance industry is the toll-gate-in-the-desert they have to go through to get it.
@jeffjarvis Please note, that #Project2025 lists government shutdowns as an “on-purpose” measure to achieve its goals, so don't assume it happened accidentally, it's a #Trump / #GOP tactic.
Permanent layoffs of federal employees, that crass targeting of agencies which are funded/unfunded, that's slightly beyond your typical shutdown.