Report says health insurance is a matter of life and death
WASHINGTON - More than 1000 New York, die each year because they are not covered by health insurance, a study released Tuesday.
The report, prepared by the non-profit group Families USA, said that people without insurance tend to avoid check-ups and preventive services. It expands on a study of 2006 statistics add state for the first time.
“A lack of health coverage is a matter of life and death for many people,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, in a conference call with journalists.
The report showed that nearly 1300 people aged 25 to 64 years - working age - died in New York in 2006, because they have no health insurance. More than 25 people die in the state, every week, for this reason, families United States reported.
The group spoke of the death in 9900 in New York of working age, for this reason, between 2000 and 2006.
Although the group does rank USA said Pollack recordings tend to follow their share of the adult population of working age without insurance. That number was 17.1 percent in New York, higher than in some other countries in the Northeastern but lower than the quarter or the people in some countries of the South, says in the report.
Families USA is not and never bias in favour of candidates for political office, “said Pollack. But it takes positions on health issues, and Mr. Pollack said that the proposals of the national health insurance plans to Sens, Hillary Rodham Clinton, DN.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill. Les positive aspects, as it applies to all Or, most Americans had no insurance.
“They have gone a long way to go to solve this problem,” said Pollack.
Mr. Pollack, a reprimand the lack of help from Washington for countries in the stagnant efforts to expand health insurance.
He also discounted ideas, mortality rates are not high, and perhaps not cause for alarm, told reporters that failure often live unhealthy lives.
“You can not die, but there may be a big influence on their lives,” said Pollack.
The report, based on information provided by the Urban Institute and the Institute of Medicine - The authors of a study of 2006 - from the premise that people without insurance are 25% more likely to die prematurely than those deprived medical insurance.
Mr. Pollack said he was not aware of New York, efforts to expand the scope of their own programs of heath insurance, social responsibility, the agencies support services to insurance endeavour ‘Low-income residents.
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