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June 26, 2008 at 12:56 PM
The health care access gap between uninsured U.S. residents and insured U.S. residents is narrowing.
Researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, have published that finding in a summary of results from a 2007 survey of 18,000 U.S. residents.
In 2007, about 18% of the uninsured people surveyed said they had gone without needed medical care in the past 12 months, compared with 6.3% of the survey participants with health insurance, according to researchers at the center, which uses the acronym HSC.
But, because insured people reported more deterioration in their ability to get needed care, the ratio of insured people with access problems to uninsured people reporting access problems increased to 0.36 to 1, from 0.29 to 1, the HSC researchers estimate.
