Harvard Study Reveals 45,000 Excess Deaths Annually Linked To Lack Of Health Insurance

A study published online estimates nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002. The new study, "Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults," appears in the online edition of the American Journal of Public Health.