Health Insurance – People without insurance wait longer to seek treatment for heart attacks

Health Insurance – People without insurance wait longer to seek treatment for heart attacks

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There's the pressure in the chest, the pain radiating through arms and shoulders, the queasiness, sweating, shortness of breath.

Warning signs of a heart attack should be hard to ignore. But that's just what many people try to do if they have little or no health insurance, a new study finds.

Uninsured people — and even people who have insurance but have trouble paying medical bills — wait significantly longer to go to a hospital for heart attacks than insured people who don't have major financial concerns about their health care.

There's the pressure in the chest, the pain radiating through arms and shoulders, the queasiness, sweating, shortness of breath. Warning signs of a heart attack should be hard to ignore. But that's just what many people try to do if they have little or no health insurance, a new study finds. Uninsured people — and even people [...]


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