The Uninsured!

Lake of health insurance is associated with less preventive care, delay in diagnosis and unnecessary deaths.However, insurance status does not effect the quantity (or value) of imaging- services received by patients in a hospital, in- patient setting. Uninsured hospital in-patient who underwent imaging received the same number of imaging services as insured person. the uninsured received fewer intervention and image-guided procedures but more computed tomography (CT) studies. Journal of the American College of radiology , Jan 2012