Uninsured and Dying Because of It
Contributing Organization(s): Urban Institute
Author(s)/Creator(s): Stan Dorn
Publishing Date: 2008-01-01
Issue Areas: Health and Medicine
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The absence of health insurance creates a range of consequences, including lower quality of life, increased morbidity and mortality, and higher financial burdens. This paper focuses on just one aspect of this harm-namely, greater risk of death-and seeks to illustrate its general order of magnitude. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated that 18,000 Americans died in 2000 because they were uninsured. Since then, the number of uninsured has grown. Based on the IOM's methodology and subsequent Census Bureau estimates of insurance coverage, 137,000 people died from 2000 through 2006 because they lacked health insurance, including 22,000 people in 2006.
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