U.S. Residents with Chronic Diseases Receive Inadequate Treatment
There are millions of individuals in the U.S. that have chronic diseases that do not receive proper medical care because they are part of the uninsured population according to a study that was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers looked at individual health surveys between the ages of 18 to 64 that was conducted by the federal government.
It was found that of the thirty six (36) million people who reported not to have health insurance in 2004, about 11 million had been diagnosed with a chronic condition. It seems that about 25 % of the uninsured with a chronic condition saw a doctor within the previous year and about 7 percent said they would go to the emergency department for treatment.