Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage

Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
Source: American Journal of Public Health (via Physicians for a National Health Program)

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.

+ Full Report (PDF; 550 KB)
+ State-by-state breakout (PDF; 12 KB)

« Posting Index

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm and is filed under Health and healthcare, Health insurance. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Comments are closed.