Patients Without Individual Health Insurance Plans Are More Likely to Die in Hospital Confinements
People without individual health insurance plans should watch out.
A recently published study has found that hospital mortality is higher among uninsured patients while confined in hospitals.
If you do not currently own any of available individual health insurance plans, you would have a 50% higher chance of possibly dying while confined in a hospital due to stroke or heart attack.
This is the highly interesting finding of a study published recently in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
The research focused on about 150,000 hospital discharges in the United States.
The study looked at patients' length of stay and hospital costs particularly among Americans in the working age (18 years to 64 years).
It looked at mortality rate among those who have been diagnosed with stroke, pneumonia, and acute myocardial infarction or AMI.
It was conducted within an undisclosed period.
Compared to people who are holding private individual health insurance plans, patients who do not own any medical plan are more likely to die.
This is more especially true among stroke and AMI patients.
The actual figure is 52% for non-insured patients possibly dying in hospitals.
There are 49% higher odds.
The differences in involved hospital care were also present even following accounting procedures for differences in socioeconomic status, baseline health, and disease severity.
Harvard Medical School's Dr.
Omar Hasan, author of the published study, said the results highlighted by the study should broach a timely national dialogue about the need for individual health insurance plans.
The reformed healthcare policy would bring about vast changes to insurance status of numerous Americans.
He said he is hoping that the findings of the research effort would further provoke healthcare administrators, practicing physicians, and policymakers to continue considering special policies that would address possible insurance-linked gaps in in-patient care quality.
Under the reformed health insurance bill passed in March 2010, American adults would be required to purchase and own individual health insurance plans starting in 2014.
Failure to do so would be punishable by law through significant fine amounts.
Many experts hope that this would help improve the current state of healthcare system in the country.
This way, the number of patients dying of stroke and AMI in hospitals would also decline appropriately.
As to the possible reasons why such deaths are high, experts could only think of a logical explanation.
Patients who do not own any of the available individual health insurance plans would naturally feel more burdened if they get confined at hospitals.
This is because of the logical hospital fees and medicine costs that they would surely incur.
Who would not fall sicker due to such concerns?
A recently published study has found that hospital mortality is higher among uninsured patients while confined in hospitals.
If you do not currently own any of available individual health insurance plans, you would have a 50% higher chance of possibly dying while confined in a hospital due to stroke or heart attack.
This is the highly interesting finding of a study published recently in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
The research focused on about 150,000 hospital discharges in the United States.
The study looked at patients' length of stay and hospital costs particularly among Americans in the working age (18 years to 64 years).
It looked at mortality rate among those who have been diagnosed with stroke, pneumonia, and acute myocardial infarction or AMI.
It was conducted within an undisclosed period.
Compared to people who are holding private individual health insurance plans, patients who do not own any medical plan are more likely to die.
This is more especially true among stroke and AMI patients.
The actual figure is 52% for non-insured patients possibly dying in hospitals.
There are 49% higher odds.
The differences in involved hospital care were also present even following accounting procedures for differences in socioeconomic status, baseline health, and disease severity.
Harvard Medical School's Dr.
Omar Hasan, author of the published study, said the results highlighted by the study should broach a timely national dialogue about the need for individual health insurance plans.
The reformed healthcare policy would bring about vast changes to insurance status of numerous Americans.
He said he is hoping that the findings of the research effort would further provoke healthcare administrators, practicing physicians, and policymakers to continue considering special policies that would address possible insurance-linked gaps in in-patient care quality.
Under the reformed health insurance bill passed in March 2010, American adults would be required to purchase and own individual health insurance plans starting in 2014.
Failure to do so would be punishable by law through significant fine amounts.
Many experts hope that this would help improve the current state of healthcare system in the country.
This way, the number of patients dying of stroke and AMI in hospitals would also decline appropriately.
As to the possible reasons why such deaths are high, experts could only think of a logical explanation.
Patients who do not own any of the available individual health insurance plans would naturally feel more burdened if they get confined at hospitals.
This is because of the logical hospital fees and medicine costs that they would surely incur.
Who would not fall sicker due to such concerns?
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