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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2009;301(14):1425-1426.

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With President Barack Obama and Congressional leadership attempting to overhaul the health care system, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hopes the seventh time is the charm in its call for resolving the uninsured predicament.

On February 24, the IOM released America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care, a report designed to inform the health reform policy debate with current evidence of how lack of medical insurance harms the health of individuals, their communities, and the overall economy (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12511).

US adults who are uninsured face more problems than insured adults in obtaining needed care and medications and have fewer health care visits.

This report follows 6 previous IOM reports on the topic written from 2000 to 2004 that presented evidence highlighting the harmful effects of the health insurance coverage gap. These reports culminated with the IOM's 2004 recommendations that then President George W. Bush . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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