The Uninsured Patient
March 6, 2006
By Baldeep Singh, MD, and Rachel Golden, PhD
Commentary
The American Journal of Medicine
February 2006
March 6, 2006
By Baldeep Singh, MD, and Rachel Golden, PhD
Commentary
The American Journal of Medicine
February 2006
Despite recent attempts by federal programs to increase access to medical care for uninsured persons, the number of Americans without insurance has increased since 1994 by an average of one million per year, and 2.4 million in 2002. By 2002, 43 million Americans were uninsured, comprising 17.3% of the nonelderly population (Kaiser Family Foundation/Lehrer Survey About the Uninsured, unpublished data, February 2000). Even this number may underestimate the extent of the problem; recent data from the Kaiser Commission found that approximately 30% of Americans, more than 70 million people, lacked health care for at least 1 month over a 3-year period (Kaiser Family Foundation/Lehrer Survey About the Uninsured, unpublished data, February 2000).
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