Uninsured less likely to get heart meds In a group of about
61,000 U.S. residents, researchers writing in the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology found that those without any
health insurance were between 6 percent and 12 percent less
likely than people with either public or private insurance to be
prescribed drugs that are considered standard care for heat
disease. "There is some different of treatment. It only applies
- interestingly enough - to uninsured patients," said senior
author Paul Chan, of Saint Luke's Mid American Heart Institute
in Kansas City, Missouri. In the past, studies have found that
uninsured U.S. residents have worse health outcomes compared to
the insured. They're also less likely to get screenings and
preventive care - possibly because they don't often go to a
doctor. Less is known, though, about uninsured people who do go
to doctors and whether they receive worse care than insured
people. For the study, Chan and his colleagues used data from
2009 on 60,814 heart patients at