How Medical Insurance Impacts Access to Health Care in the United States
Without Insurance Access to Health Care is Limited in the United States Why the Insurance Model Was Chosen for Increasing Health Care Access One of the things I learned while a student at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine was that people who lacked health insurance also lacked reliable health care. Let us review some of the national data in this regard. In my fifty-state analysis I reviewed the following components for individual health care measures: evidence of employer based health insurance, the state uninsured population, infant mortality and other clinical outcomes. Listed below are the top performers for the criteria, as well as the laggards. States with the Highest Levels of Health Insurance, Public or Private Using the latest Kaiser Family Foundation Insurance Survey , the 2010 results show the number one state for health insurance coverage is Massachusetts, with 95% reporting health insurance plans. Massachusetts has been the model for the national insurance...