A fresh fact sheet from the Kaiser...

A fresh fact sheet from the Kaiser Commission forward Medicaid and the Uninsured describes in what way long the uninsured remain without health care coverage, who usually goe without health insurance for longer periods of time, and the validity that the duration of not having health insurance has in bounds of access to and utilization of care. According to the report, which includes updated data from 2002 longer periods without coverage are more belonging to all and occur when the person's employer does not put forward coverage, when the person cannot afford premiums, when health conditions make the living body uninsurable in the private market, when a spouse's benefits are dissipated because of divorce or death, or when the bodily substance does not qualify for public health care coverage. The report also states that bodys with low incomes and those in fair or poor health are significantly more likely to be uninsured for longer periods, and that young adults (19 to 34 years of age) are at greater risk of being uninsured for longer than 12 month compared with those in other age arranges The long-term uninsured are a great deal of more likely to lack a usual source of care than those who are uninsured for five month or les The report can be viewed online at http://www.kff.org/uninsured/4120-index.cfm.

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