For most of Joseph’s life Guyer, health insurance was a luxury he could not provide.
Between 1996 and 2007, he saw the doctors, only five times, it is easy to remember: bronchitis, and for periods of one to two times with pneumonia and chemical burns.
The fifth was appointed in December, as his ball left, the lymph nodes from his ear to his neck bone, and he was diagnosed with epithelial cells metastatic cancer Cell. However, the 47 years that survives settlement cheque for cheques settlement for the temporary employment businesses, it is without a job and without a penny, and therefore can not evacuating the motel where he lives.
“My past has expired rent and I do not know what to do,” he said. “[I] nervous, the executioners.”
Unversichert Utahns are as Guyer kränker and die sooner than their colleagues, according to a report released Tuesday by Families USA, a consumer health care Advocacy Group.
Each week, an estimated three Utahns age dying, because they are not a health insurance.
The unversichert now number 47 million in the United States, with a lack of necessary medical care, debt growing medical care and, in some cases, death. To understand what that means, families generates United States for the first time at the state estimates the number of deaths due to lack health insurance.
In 2006, in New York, living nonprofit has been found, there were about 1.25 million people aged 25 to 64 years living in Utah, of which 19.4% were unversichert. It is estimated that about 150 people have died because they have not been provided between 2000 and 2006, their number has more than 800
The nation is unversichert, can be read in the report, “Death for reporting in Utah, is less likely, a usual source of care for emergencies and outside, without being regularly demonstrations health and prevention. Adults without insurance, for example, are more than three times more likely than adults to delay seeking medical care [47 percent compared to 15 percent.]
The result of the collision are more than 25 percent of private insurance is likely to be diagnosed with the disease at an advanced stage, the report says.
Nobody knows better than doctors at the clinic Fourth Street, you have more than 6000 people - 90 percent of them are unversichert - per year. In 2007, “said Jennifer Hyvonen, communications director of the clinic, 50 died at home of patients suffering from chronic diseases. Their average age: 46
We have a lot of patients who are treated,” she said. “You are diabetic, and they have high cholesterol and hypertension, which could then, and only then connections there, as long as they receive no treatment.”
Unversichert Americans between 55 and 64 years, are at a greater risk of premature death, the report says. The organization believes that there is no insurance coverage for various diseases, the third leading cause of death - behind heart disease and cancer.
The group includes Donna Doty, was diagnosed in the late stage of breast cancer in July 2007 and has been adopted by November 14 dead, “said her sister, Pamela Buss. The wife of 60 years, Salt Lake City has worked as a waitress for most of his life and was unversichert.
”Over time, it was diagnosed, it has expanded his lungs and his brain, as well as cancer,” said Buss. If his sister had health insurance, “I am quite sure that they would have had more regular performances, it is not a financial problem.”
As it has not provided adults are not able to open negotiations on the rebate to the hospital and physician fees, insurance form, they also pay more for two-and-a-times more than half - for their care, the report says. More than 60 percent of uninsured adults under age 65 reported battle with the medical bills.
“Our network is for a lot of people over that strap holes,” said Ron Pollock, Executive Director of Families USA.
In most countries, eligibility for public health to reach up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $ 34000 annual income for a family of three. “If you have an adult, but you are not a parent, in 42 countries may literally need, and you are not eligible for public reporting as Medicaid,” said Pollock.
Expanding eligibility for public programs insurance is a social movement, families, “he said. “There are many people who are not insured and clarify the needs for assistance and to be cared for, it would be a marked improvement with regard to mortality.”
Data from the state in recent months show that the number of uninsured people has made Utahns for the first time since 2001. Utahns About 287200, or 10.6 percent of the population, has been in the past years was not assured. Unversichert That’s 19,300 fewer than in 2006.
Several groups are hardest hit, but, like the poor, Latinos and people who are High School graduate. About 87800 Utah children were even in the absence of insurance, as well as 101900 adults were full-time jobs.
Earlier this month, the legislature of the newly created Task Force and health reform began meeting to discuss Article 16 measures, including the adoption of legislation, the insurance companies to offer cheaper , health plans to portable, and they need to practice their ratings.
”Most of us know someone who delay care because they are uninsured or under-insured and can not afford to receive,” said Judi Hilman, director of the Utah Health Policy Project. Make sure Utahns timely and affordable access primary and preventive treatments “not only saves the State of dollars, but can be done at the end to save lives.”