tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 27

Uninsured: EXPANDING COVERAGE IS WORTH IT FOR ALL, IOM PANEL INSISTS

Many Americans fail to reach their developmental potential, and public programs like Medicare, the employment disability system, and the justice system incur substantial costs, as a result of high levels of uninsurance. So says the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance in the fifth in its series of six reports, which estimates what's lost to the nation as some 40 million Americans go without insurance on any given day. Among the burdens created for society by high levels of unin-surance, says the panel: large numbers of children who don't reach their developmental potential and additional monetary...

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