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500,000 cancer deaths linked to 2008 financial collapse
And to this day none of the Wall Street crooks directly responsible have been held accountable in any way whatsoever. USA! USA!
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The global financial crisis may have caused an additional 500,000 cancer deaths from 2008-2010, a new study said Thursday, with patients locked out of treatment because of unemployment and healthcare cuts.
The figures were extrapolated from an observed rise in cancer deaths for every percentage increase in unemployment, and every drop in public healthcare spending.
“From our analysis we estimate that the economic crisis was associated with over 260,000 excess cancer deaths in the OECD (34-member Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) alone, between 2008-2010,” study author Mahiben Maruthappu of Imperial College London told AFP.
“This suggests that there could have been well over 500,000 excess cancer deaths worldwide during this time.”
For the European Union alone, the estimate was 160,000 additional deaths — a term used to describe people who would not otherwise have died.
For the United States, the estimate was 18,000 and for France 1,500. For Spain and Britain, which provided universal healthcare, no additional deaths were calculated.
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