About 1.7 million veterans lack health insurance, study says
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About 1.7 million veterans are among the 45 million Americans who have no health insurance coverage, say Harvard Medical School researchers and a doctors group advocating federally financed health care.
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Just under 44 million Americans had no health insurance in 2006, according to a survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Monday.
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he number of people without health insurance rose by 1.4 million, to a record 45 million last year, amid rising costs for coverage and a continuing fall-off in the number of workers in
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Veterans face serious inequities in compensation depending on where they live, an analysis by The New York Times has found.
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The risk of suicide among male U.S. veterans is double that of the general population, according to study published Monday. For 12 years, more than 104,000 veterans who had served in the armed forces at some time between 1917 and 1994 were compared with more than 216,000 non-veterans. At biggest risk were veterans who were white, those who had gone to college and those with activity limitations, according to the study
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Nearly 1.7 million veterans have no health insurance or access to government hospitals and clinics, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Nearly six in 10 eligible children whose parents applied for Medicaid in Virginia went without health care for weeks or months because of a new federal rule intended to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving coverage, according to a state survey of 800 low-income families.
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WASHINGTON -- Routine failure to provide needed health care in the United States came with the price tag of $1.8 billion in additional medical costs and up to 79,000 avoidable deaths, according to a new study.
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Aug. 26, 2004 -- An estimated 45 million Americans don&#39;t have health insurance, and that number is rising faster than the number of Americans with insurance, according to a new report released today by the US Census Bureau.
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About half the population in Kentucky does not have dental insurance, and 1 in 10 residents are missing all their teeth.
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Most of the 9 million U.S. children   who lack health insurance live with both parents, at least one   of whom works, a consumer group said on Thursday, in a finding   they said shows many people cannot afford health insurance   under the existing system.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans file for bankruptcy each year because of medical bills - even though they have health insurance, according to a new study.
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Nearly 1.7 million U.S. veterans had  no health care coverage in 2003 -- no access to private  insurance, to Medicare or Medicaid or to the Veterans Affairs  health program, health care advocates said on Tuesday.
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Medical costs for U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could range from $350 billion to $662 billion over the next 40 years, as soldiers survive injuries that would have killed them in past conflicts, according to a Harvard University study.
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The government used prewar data to estimate the cost of caring for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, contributing to a $3 billion budget shortfall at the Veterans Affairs Department since 2005, congressional investigators say.
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A new study reveals that 1/3rd of returning veterans have a diagnosed mental illness, and young soldiers are paticularly vulnerable
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More Americans than ever before have no health care insurance, 45 million at last count. Five million of these have lost health care coverage in the past four years.