Hospital Health Care

In a new study published by the Annals of Internal Medicine, its findings showed that nearly one out of every three working aged uninsured American suffers from a chronic illness and that many of these individuals are not going to their private physicians but are visiting the emergency departments in hospitals for medical care.  Researchers from the Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School examined National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 1999 to 2004.

There were about 12,486 people between the ages of 18 to 64 records reviewed.  It is noted that the study may underestimate the number of uninsured people with chronic conditions since it counted only those who had already received a diagnosis.

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.