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45,000 Excess Deaths Annually Linked to Lack of Health Insurance: Harvard Study

Lack of health insurance now more lethal

(ENEWSPF)– A study published online Thursday estimates nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.

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The new study, "Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults," appears in Thursday’s online edition of the American Journal of Public Health.

The Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured,…

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