HealthLetter

HealthLetter, May 2008

Today, 45 million Americans are living without health insurance coverage and an additional 16 million are considered underinsured. Whether insured or not, growing numbers face sgnificant obstacles to getting the health care they need. They confront a lack of personal transportation, high out-of-pocket costs, language differences, a shortage of services to help them understand and use what health-care resources they have, and a declining supply of primary-care physicians—the health-care cornerstones.