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Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
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| Last Edited | RP Sep 18, 2009 02:52pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, September 17, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A study published online today estimates nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.
The new study, “Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults,” appears in today’s online edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
The Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993. |
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