No Health Insurance? It's Enough to Make You Sick - Scientific Research Linking the Lack of Health Coverage to Poor Health
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In the past ten years, several hundred studies have been conducted to document the plight of uninsured Americans. The evidence from these studies contradicts the notion that a lack of insurance is merely an inconvenience as is often supposed by many Americans. These studies confirm that there are real consequences of being uninsured. The American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM), representing 115,000 physicians of internal medicine and medical students, presents the significant data it has collected in "No Health Insurance? It's Enough to Make You Sick."
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