Budget Woes Threaten Mobile EMS
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The Associated Press
Published: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 6:37 pm
Last Updated: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 6:43 pm
Last Updated: Tue, April 08, 2008 - 6:43 pm
12 Alabamians between the ages of 25 and 64 die each week because they don't have health insurance.
That added up to about 600 deaths in 2006.
The Washington, D.C.-based Families USA advocacy group compiled
data from 2006 and found that 20 percent of the state's 2-point-3 (m) million working-age residents that year were uninsured.
The report is called "Dying for Coverage" and used national data from the Institute of Medicine and The Urban Institute to
compile the state-by-state results.
It found that nearly 3,400 working adults died in Alabama
between 2000 and 2006 because of their uninsured status and that
residents were sicker and died sooner than their insured
counterparts.
The study did not rank states.
Ron Gilbert is policy director for Alabama Arise and said such
studies are important because they bring a more local and personal
perspective to a broad, national crisis.
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Below is a link to the study's results for:
Florida
Mississippi
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I know what you mean about paying dearly for coverage.A lot of the time in the last 45 years that i have been paying for it,it hurt alot,but a lot of these people live where there is no free clinic or they don’t want to ask for charity and alot just know how to milk the system,meaning they wouldn’t pay for health care when they have the money.Yet a lot of illegal immigrants and people here on visas will come to our hospital’s E.R.’s and get free care here at our expense,because they couldn’t afford it in their own country and some then return home.We need to take care of our own people first and then help those that we can in other parts of the world.