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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-16-09 11:11 PM
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11. Much of that is because the uninsured demographic tends to be less robust or healthy to begin with.
Edited on Mon Nov-16-09 11:14 PM by Psephos
When analyzing the trend, the first conclusion one jumps to is not necessarily the best.

After controlling/normalizing for age, you find higher percentages of people among the uninsured who have poor nutrition, addiction problems, lower income, and neglect of underlying health problems. They also show higher-than-norm rates of destructive or risky behaviors.

This does not and cannot say anything about individual people in the demographic.

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