Health care coverage doesn't guarantee access, Ann Arbor research center finds

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Source: AnnArbor.com

By: Tina Reed AnnArbor.com Staff
Health care coverage doesn't guarantee access, Ann Arbor research center finds
Posted: 5:12 p.m. Today


More Michiganders are delaying health care because they are uninsured or because they cannot access health services with their health coverage, according to a new report from an Ann Arbor-based research center.

At least 20 percent of those responding to a survey said they'd needed - but did not seek - medical attention in the previous six months, according to the report from the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation.

Of that group, at least 30 percent said they could not afford the health care coverage.

The report also suggests a person's income, education and gender have more to do with a person's health status than whether or not they had health insurance.

Read more: http://www.annarbor.com/health/health-care-coverage-doesnt-guarantee-access-ann-arbor-research-center-finds/

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1. K&R for DUers who think health insurance means access to healthcare

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[zalinda]

2. Sicko was about people who HAD health insurance n/t

[jtrockville]

3. Health insurance is a BARRIER to health care. It's a SCAM.

[Mithreal]

5. +1

[aquart]

4. BINGO

[avaistheone1]

6. K&R

[Lorien]

7. From the article:

"The survey makes it clear that having health insurance is important but no guarantee of access to health care or self-perceptions of health status," said Marianne Udow-Phillips, director of the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation in a written statement.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. THIS IS OUR FUTURE --

with the current Health Insurance Bill. Anyone who isn't getting that fact needs to wake the fuck up and get with the problem. :mad:

Dennis Kucinich GETS IT -- thank the gods there is one Democrat who has the courage to tell the truth about this sham bill.