America's Uninsured Crisis:

Consequences for Health and Health Care

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Size: 236 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:2009

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Committee on Health Insurance Status and Its Consequences, Institute of Medicine
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Front Matter	i-xxii
Summary	1-12	(skim)
1 Introduction	13-24	(skim)
2 Caught in a Downward Spiral	25-48	(skim)
3 Coverage Matters	49-90	(skim)
4 Communities at Risk	91-112	(skim)
5 Summary of Findings and Recommendation	113-118	(skim)
Appendix A: Executive Summary of the 2004 IOM Report "Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations"	119-134	(skim)
Appendix B: Statistics on the Nonelderly U.S. Population Without Health Insurance, 2007	135-138	(skim)
Appendix C: State Regulations Promoting Access to Individual Health Insurance Policies, 2007	139-142	(skim)
Appendix D: Recent Studies of the Impacts of Health Insurance for Children: Summary Tables	143-196	(skim)
Appendix E: Recent Studies of the Impacts of Health Insurance for Adults: Summary Table	197-206	(skim)
Appendix F: Committee Biographies	207-215	(skim)

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When policy makers and researchers consider potential solutions to the crisis of uninsurance in the United States, the question of whether health insurance matters to health is often an issue. This question is far more than an academic concern. It is crucial that U.S. health care policy be informed with current and valid evidence on the consequences of uninsurance for health care and health outcomes, especially for the 45.7 million individuals without health insurance.
From 2001 to 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued six reports, which concluded that being uninsured was hazardous to people's health and recommended that the nation move quickly to implement a strategy to achieve health insurance coverage for all.
The goal of this book is to inform the health reform policy debate--in 2009--with an up-to-date assessment of the research evidence. This report addresses three key questions: