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Health Care Access And Insurance Availability In Nevada, Charles B. Moseley, Michelle Sotero
Health Care Access And Insurance Availability In Nevada, Charles B. Moseley, Michelle Sotero
Social Health of Nevada Reports
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM),
- Approximately 18,000 Americans die prematurely every year, solely because they lack health insurance coverage (Institute of Medicine, 2004).
- The IOM estimates that the aggregate cost of increased morbidity and mortality due to un-insurance in the U.S. is between $65 billion and $130 billion per year.
- Costs to the health care system can be measured conservatively in terms of the value of uncompensated care provided to the uninsured, estimated at almost $35 billion in 2001, of which $24 billion was provided by hospitals.
Access to medical care is not a constitutional right in the …