Joe Paduda on Dr. Benjamin Sommers' keynote address at the WCRI Conference:

First, reality is people who have health insurance are healthier than those who don’t. Quantitative research indicates having health insurance improves health - and people with health insurance improves self-reported health status.

Today we are seeing very large health insurance premium increases and significant reductions in the number of people insured - to date, at least a million have lost coverage…estimates are 3 – 4 million will lose coverage this year.

Read his full coverage here.

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