Insurance and the U.S. Health Care System
New England Journal of MedicinePublished 27 July 2005
Bárbara Starfield
Citations24
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The potent effect of inadequate insurance coverage on several aspects of access to services, including delays in seeking care, unmet medical care needs, unfilled prescriptions, and no visits to doctors' offices are described.
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Nearly 15 percent of children in the United States are inadequately insured because they lack health insurance for all or part of the year. In this issue of the Journal, Olson and colleagues1 describe the potent effect of inadequate insurance coverage on several aspects of access to services. They also examine several other effects of inadequate insurance coverage. Olson et al. characterized insurance coverage as full-year, part-year, or none and as private or public. The manifestations of compromised access to services were delays in seeking care, unmet medical care needs, unfilled prescriptions, no visits to doctors' offices, the lack of . . .
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