Nearly 43 million people are uninsured in the United States and 80 percent live in working families, she said. Uninsured Americans are three times more likely than the insured to experience an avoidable hospitalization for diabetes.
Uninsured people are more than three times more likely to die in the hospital than the insured.
Uninsured adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 are four times more likely to have unmet health needs, four times less likely to get dental care, four times less likely to get need prescriptions, and four times less likely to get needed eyeglasses. The ACP-ASIM is the nation's largest medical specialty organization and the second largest physician group. Membership comprises more than 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students.