If you are not insured, you should get health insurance to avoid getting a devastating diagnosis that could mean an early death.
David Noonan, in his Newsweek (11, 3) column, writes that “what insurance (and the lack of it) often represents, as numerous studies have shown, is the difference between care and no care, between an early cancer diagnosis and a late diagnosis.” According to one study lead by a John Hopkins surgeon, “what insurance represented was nothing less than the difference between life and death.”
In the study, they found that “uninsured patients were 50 percent more likely to die from their injuries than insured patients.” Noonan writes, “The findings by Haider and his colleagues erase any illusion that emergency care is the great equalizer in our health care system that our differences are left behind when we are rolled through those double doors, injured and in danger of dying.”
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