Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late
- ISBN-10
- 0309083435
- ISBN-13
- 9780309083430
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-06-20
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Authors
- Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance
Description
Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital--based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million -- one in seven--working--age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Consequences of UninsuranceThe first of six Institute of Medicine reports that will examine in detail the consequences of having a large uninsured population, Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care, explores the myths and realities of who is uninsured, ...
-
America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Health Insurance Status and Its ConsequencesThe goal of this book is to inform the health reform policy debateâ€"in 2009â€"with an up-to-date assessment of the research evidence.
-
Health Insurance is a Family Matter
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Consequences of UninsuranceThe book demonstrates that having one or more uninsured members in a family can have adverse consequences for everyone in the household and that the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of all members of a family may be adversely ...
-
America's Children: Health Insurance and Access to Care
By Institute of Medicine, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, Committee on ChildrenAmerica's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed?
-
Health-Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination
By Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division, EngineeringHealth Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe ...
-
The Affordable Care Act
By Tamara ThompsonThis book explores the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act, and explains who benefits from the ACA. Readers will learn how the economy is affected by the ACA, and the impact of the ACA rollout.
-
Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Consequences of UninsuranceInsuring America's Health recommends principles related to universality, continuity of coverage, affordability to individuals and society, and quality of care to guide health insurance reform.
-
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Consequences of UninsuranceThe book explores the potential economic and societal benefits that could be realized if everyone had health insurance on a continuous basis, as people over age 65 currently do with Medicare.
-
America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone
By J. Patrick Rooney, Dan PerrinPraise for America's Health Care Crisis Solved "All Presidential candidates as well as everyone else must read this insightful book.
-
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
By Elisabeth RosenthalA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha ...