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Harvard Medical Study Links Lack of Insurance to 45000 U.S. ...
Sep 17, 2009 . Prescriptions - Making Sense of the Health Care Debate . Dr. Woolhandler said the study should prompt policymakers in Washington to . to only a portion of the nearly 50 million people who are without health insurance. . on medical-related bankruptcies, cautioned that expanding coverage would not be .
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/harvard-medical-study-links-lack-of-insurance-to-45000-us-deaths-a-year/

Despite the Reform Law, Don't Write Off Single Payer - Managed Care
Woolhandler has advocated for years that a Medicare-for-all health care system . the insurance industry stepped in with hundreds of millions of dollars and was . who are underinsured and who face the risk of medical bankruptcy if they get a .
http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/1004/1004.qna_woolhandler.html

Written Testimony of Steffie Woolhandler M.D., MPH Associate ...
Jul 28, 2009 . I am senior author on two studies on medical bankruptcy, the most . 85% of the entire U.S. population had health insurance in 2007. . deductibles and uncovered services such as physical therapy, mental health care, and home care . . medical bankruptcies will total 866000 and involve 2.346 million .
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Woolhandler090728.pdf

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Medical Bills Major Cause of Bankruptcies | Alter Inspire
Feb 29, 2012 . Most Americans are just one illness away from bankruptcy – even those with healthcare insurance. Unfortunately, there are millions of other .
http://www.altergroup.com/alter-care-blog/index.php/healthcare/medical-bills-major-cause-of-bankruptcies/

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Testimony of Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., on medical bankruptcy
Jul 28, 2009 . I am a primary care doctor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and professor of . is that private health insurance is a defective product that leaves millions of . Often illness led to job loss, and with it the loss of health insurance.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/july/testimony_of_steffie.php

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Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National ...
RESULTS: Using a conservative definition, 62.1% of all bankruptcies in 2007 were medical; 92% of these medical debtors had . KEYWORDS: Bankruptcy; Health care costs; Health economics . 37.2 million Americans about medical bills in 2003.9 Be- . Himmelstein DU, Warren E, Thorne D, Woolhandler S. Illness and .
http://www.pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/Bankruptcy-2009.pdf

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Study: Over 2200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health ...
Nov 11, 2009 . We speak to the report's co-author, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor . The report's authors say the healthcare legislation pending in the House . have no health insurance, and there's just under 1.5 million uninsured veterans nationally. . In our studies, we found that 62 percent of all bankruptcies in the .
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/11/study_over_2_200_us_veterans

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Stephanie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein Healthcare Reform ...
the health care reform process exposed how corporate . $100 million dollars to an ad campaign opposing the bill. . In our most recent data on bankruptcy .
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/sph/files/2011/11/783_Woolhandler-Himmelstein_719-730.pdf

Medical Bills Responsible For 60 Percent Of US Bankruptcies ...
Jun 3, 2009 . A new study suggests that more than 60 percent of US bankruptcies result from . This year, an estimated 1.5 million Americans will declare bankruptcy, and a new . Lead author Steffie Woolhandler, MD, of the Harvard Medical School, . who suffered medically related bankruptcy had health insurance.
http://www.thaimedicalnews.com/medical-bills-usa-responsible-60-percent-bankruptcies/2009/06/03/

Medical Bankruptcy: Myth Versus Fact - Health Affairs
At the intersection of health, health care, and policy. . They propose comprehensive national health insurance as a solution. . of large medical bills is a topic of acute interest to millions of Americans. . for a National Health Plan, a group cofounded by Himmelstein and his coauthor Steffie Woolhandler, is difficult to justify.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/25/2/w74.full

Private Insurance, High Costs and the - Multinational Monitor
Steffie Woolhandler: Forty-seven million Americans were uninsured as of 2006. . Woolhandler: The United States has the world's most expensive healthcare . of all people in the U.S. pushed into medical bankruptcy do have health insurance .
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2008/092008/interview-woolhandler.html