Coverage and care for the medically indigent: public and private options.

As of March 1984, about 35 million people had no health insurance coverage, public or private, although some of them were only temporarily uncovered. Up to 40-odd miUion more, often called the "underinsured," had incomplete coverage.^ These people, with little or no insurance, need periodic medical attention as much as or more than the well insured, but face far more trouble getting it.^ Often, they have been forced to