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A friend of mine on Gather was gracious enough to loan me this article.
Dying for Coverage
by Marilyn Mackenzie
I got an email from Families USA the other day about a healthcare study. It was titled, Dying for Coverage in Ohio.
Here's part of the information in the study:
"The number of uninsured Americans reached 47 million in 2006, and it continues to rise. For many of the uninsured, the lack of health insurance has dire consequences. The uninsured face medical debt, often go without necessary care, and even die prematurely. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine released a groundbreaking report, Care without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late, which estimated that, nationwide, 18,000 adults between the ages of 25 and 64 died in 2000 because they did not have health insurance. Subsequently, The Urban Institute estimated that at least 22,000 adults in the same age group died in 2006 because they did not have health insurance."
Families USA generated state-level estimates of the number of deaths due to lack of medical insurance.
Here are some of the statistics and facts they encountered in the state of Ohio:
In 2006, there were more than 6,054,000 people between the ages of 25 and 64 living in Ohio. Of those, 12.7 percent were uninsured.
Uninsured Ohioans are sicker and die sooner than their insured counterparts.
Two working-age Ohioans die each day due to lack of health insurance (approximately 750 people in 2006).
Between 2000 and 2006, the estimated number of adults between the ages of 25 and 64 in Ohio who died because they did not have health insurance was more than 5,100.
Here's another startling fact: Across the United States, in 2006, twice as many people died from lack of health insurance as died from homicide.
To read more, click here: Dying for Coverage in Ohio
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