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Three adults die prematurely each week, on average, in Connecticut, because they are not covered by health insurance, and more than 1100 in the deaths of more than seven years, a new report, the consciousness is likely to weigh in the debate on the reform of health systems.

The people had no estimate of the age of 25 to 64 years, from 2000 to 2006 and is now the families of the United States, an organization of 25 years, advocates of health care affordable for all Americans .

Dozens of previous studies have found that people without health insurance tend to forgo tests and preventive care and care or to surrender move, if they have a medical problem.

Families USA is based on two previous studies on the same subject. During the year 2002, the Institute of Medicine estimated that Germany 18000 adults die prematurely each year because they lack insurance, the estimate of the Urban Institute, an economic and social policy of the research group, was at least 22000 in the year 2006.    

Families USA, the first of the State-by an alarming state to list statistics for the spokesperson for consumers and public officials hope to increase pressure on the urgency for the health sector and the insurance reform.

“As this report shows, a lack of health insurance has a huge impact - twice as many people died because of lack of health insurance as homicide and died in 2006,” said US Rep. L. Rosa DeLauro, D-3. Borough. “This is shocking and is further proof that we are not lagging behind most developed countries of this crisis of health care.”

Although DeLauro been national data on homicide, his commentary is valid for Connecticut, too.

Families USA estimates that 150 Connecticut adults died in the year 2006 due to the lack of insurance companies, and FBI statistics show 108 murders in the state this year.

The report states, “universal health care is a matter of life or death for a number of people,” said Juan A. Figueroa, president of Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut. Needless to say, losing a life is enough. ”

Families USA deployment of data from different countries in recent weeks, and some are worse than ergehend Connecticut. The organization of the site (www.familiesusa.org), shows Arkansas, for example, has a much higher proportion of uninsured adults and had an estimated 390 deaths in the year 2006, in conjunction with the lack of insurance.

Families USA’s methodology is based on previous studies that have reported that this is not guaranteed 25 percent of adults are more likely to die prematurely as adults with private insurance. Family uses Connecticut in the United States of data on the population as a whole mortality and the rate of uninsured here - more than 11 percent of 25 - up to 64 years in 2006. This is equivalent to approximately 210,000.

Officials were not surprised to see the number of deaths related to the lack of insurance.

The report “seems to be a very strong light on the consequences of underinsurance and did not have any,” said Kevin Lembo, state of health lawyer in Connecticut.

“This is a real families and real people dying,” said Lembo. “I hope we will encourage them to continue to move forward, which is confirmed by a very difficult process” of the reform.

State Sen. Andrew Roraback, R-Goshen, provided that the United States families report has some effect because “every bit of information fuels, the momentum to find a way to plug the holes in our system.”

However, he warned that “tolls on the part of the population without insurance is far larger than three people within a week die.” Many people live without coverage, but to suffer physically, and finally, in emergency rooms, said Roraback, is a ranking member of the Committee on Public Health and Vice-Chief minority by tempore.

Official public and private Connecticut, it is clear that the General Assembly will spend a lot of health reform in the short extra session this year. During the past year, the legislature approved nearly $ 400 million. Some of them have been strengthening of the rule HUSKY insurance program for children and low-income families, and some have been informed of the rising costs of Medicaid reimbursement for doctors and hospitals in order improve access to care.

Roraback said that, given the current state budget and the limits of the economy, it is not “anticipate the dramatic consequences of reform in this session.”

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, said the country can not alone anyway, and the efforts made by the parties at the federal level must play a role. Candidates for the presidency, he visited said that health reform deserves as the top priority.

“If the new president and Congress in Washington during the year 2009, I think this may be a historic opportunity, in fact significant improvements,” said Pollack.

“This issue has been a political minefield in the past 15 years,” said US Rep.. Joe Courtney, D-2. Borough. “I think political pressure is based on something we saw in the early 1990’s.”

Families USA report is not the problem of inadequate insurance people - as the insured and the high cost sharing - will also lead to a human being, without delay or nursing , said Vicki Veltri, Connecticut General Counsel Office of the Advocate Health Care.

“It is not just that [an insurance] on the card,” she said. “So is the quality of services.