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Article: A quarter-million West Virginia adults do not have health insurance.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- February 23, 2004
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2004 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of West Virginia adults without health insurance has increased by 15,000 to 235,000 in the last 2 years, a new survey says.
And about 8% of the state's children went without health insurance in 2003, below the national average of 12% for 2002.
Nearly half of those without insurance said the costs of premiums, deductibles and co-payments were to blame.
"The situation is getting worse and worse," Sally Richardson, executive director of the West Virginia University Institute for Health Policy Research, said February 5, 2004,.
Conducted by research company Taylor Nelson Sofres ...