A New York neurologist is warning of a dangerous problem with government databases that are declaring people dead when they are very much alive.The Obamacare website has received notoriety for a variety of ailments – including registering a dog in Colorado and telling a 63-year-old man he was ineligible for insurance due to being incarcerated, despite the fact he has never been arrested – but now the program is, as the popular saying goes, “seeing dead people.” Only unlike the film that popularized the phrase, these “dead” people are very much alive.
The Washington Post recently reported that at least 750 living Americans each month are being declared dead by the government bureaucracy.
Being declared dead prematurely is nothing new. Mark Twain once famously said, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” In 1998, during a live broadcast of C-SPAN, a member of the House of ...