The rising unemployment will have a deadly cost beyond the virus

     With the huge unemployment numbers recently released, there is a cost beyond the financial impact on families.  Since much of our health insurance is linked to employment the loss of a job also means the loss of health coverage.  A Harvard report has suggested that 45,000 Americans die each year from not having health insurance.  While it might be hard to understand the exact consequence to your health from not having health insurance it is safe to assume that the number of deaths from the uninsured will increase this year as more people lose their coverage.  Add to this the need for more people having to file for bankruptcy from unpaid medical bills.  The United States continues to pay a higher cost to the virus pandemic than most other countries, in so many ways, because of our lack of having a universal health care system.  Maybe being pro-life should include this reality.