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January 2008
 Uninsured & Dying Because of It: Updating the Institute of Medicine
Analysis on the Impact of Uninsurance on Mortality
This research presents an update on 2002 research conducted by the
Institute of Medicine on the relationship between an individual's
insurance status and risk of death. The researchers proposed that deaths
from preventable or treatable conditions could be positively correlated
with access to early and adequate treatment, such as is generally
provided through a health insurance plan.
The researchers applied the 2002 research methodology but used recent
Census Bureau estimates of the annual number of uninsured adults and
applied a differential mortality estimate. They discovered that the 2002
projections of 18,314 annual deaths related to lack of insurance may have
underestimated the number of such deaths.
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