Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care

by National Research Council and Board on Health Care Services

Roughly 40 million Americans have no health insurance, private or public, and the number has grown steadily over the past 25 years. Who are these children, women, and men, and why do they lack coverage for essential health care services? How does the system of insurance coverage in the U.S. operate, and where does it fail? The first of six Institute of Medicine reports that will examine in detail the consequences of having a large uninsured population,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309076099
• ISBN13: 9780309076098
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"