Uninsured Populations

Uninsured Population
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Uninsured Population
Many uninsured individuals avoid seeking health care services unless they face an emergency or the illness manifestations become unbearable. Consequently, uninsured populations are less likely to receive diagnosis services in the initial stages of an illness, thus increasing their probability of suffering from aggravated health conditions. In addition, an increasingly large uninsured population in the country results in inequalities in care access, avoidable deaths, deteriorated care quality, financial burdens on individuals who are underinsured or uninsured, and lost economic productivity (National Immigration Law Center, 2017).
Accordingly, a large proportion of the uninsured population affects the healthcare sector in various ways. When uninsured individuals utilize healthcare services, they and their households tolerate a disproportionately higher share of the care costs concerning their lower incomes, compared to insured families and their higher-income households, on average (Carman, Liu, & White, 2020). Health care services utilized by uninsured individuals are often uncompensated in whole or part, leading to costs to communities, providers, and communities and causing financial anxiety, stress, and shame for the recipients. In addition, the uncompensated care burden is extensively and unevenly distributed across sponsors and providers, depending on healthcare services and institutions’ local configurations and local and state revenue sources (Dickman, Himmelstein, & Woolhandler, 2017).<...