Insurance Approvals For Cancer Treatment

While 46 percent of uninsured respondents who received health care over the previous two years said they did not pay for it, the providers of that care often have other means of recovering some of those costs—for example, through philanthropic funds or reimbursement by the government. And 36 percent of the uninsured respondents said they use emergency rooms for preventative care such as screenings, checkups, and vaccinations. Such avoidable ER visits add $32 billion in costs to the national health care system each year, according to an analysis by UnitedHealth Group