02 May 2006
Lack of health insurance associated with decreased use of health care services

It's in 'Humor' but it really belongs in the 'Common Sense Apparently Isn't' file: a thousand dollars is a thousand dollars is a thousand dollars - it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, what matters is that the cash is coming out of your pocket directly rather than out of some pool of money to which you may have contributed something over the course of years.

What manner of fool doesn't understand this simple fact? Health care research fools, apparently! Perhaps the problem is not that people without insurance under-utilize health care services, but that people with insurance over-utilize them.

Higher-income adults without health insurance are nearly as likely as lower-income adults without insurance to not use recommended health care services such as cancer screening, cardiovascular risk reduction and diabetes management, according to a study in the May 3 issue of JAMA.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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