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Lack of Insurance to Blame for Almost 45,000 Deaths: Study
Date:9/17/2009

the nation in excess deaths from lack of health insurance -- with 5,302 deaths in 2005.

"Safety net" funding to support health care services for California's poor and uninsured has not kept up with the growth in the ranks of the uninsured and the escalating cost of medical care, Wulsin observed. He suspects the same factors are playing out nationwide.

So what's the solution? Policymakers should cover as many people as possible, Wulsin said, and they should focus on primary care and preventive services so that people don't delay care and end up in the emergency department "with conditions that are hard to deal with at that point."

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For more on health coverage and the uninsured, see The Kaiser Family Foundation.



SOURCES: Andrew P. Wilper, M.D., instructor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Lucien Wulsin, J.D., director, Insure the Uninsured Project, Santa Monica, Calif.; Sept. 17, 2009, news release, National Center for Policy Analysis; Sept. 17, 2009, American Journal of Public Health, online


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