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Nearly 30 years ago, I moved back to the United States after spending four and a half years abroad. I hadn’t yet landed a new job but was paying what seemed at the time to be a fortune to remain on my prior employer’s health insurance plan when I started running a 106-degree fever. It was malaria and I needed to spend the final days of my coverage in the hospital – nearly all expenses paid by that insurance policy. Once I had gotten a new job with another policy, I started to do something that insurance is more commonly useful for: seeing the same doctor on a regular basis. I’ve since changed providers, but always by choice.
The 25 million Americans who don’t have insurance generally can’t make that choice. Most of them don’t have a steady connection with a doctor. And if the tax-and-spending bill that the House passed in May were to become law, it would make changes that would cause millions more to become uninsured. Most of them would see their health suffer without that regular provider, explain Jane Tavares and Marc Cohen, who conduct gerontology research at UMass Boston.
“Staying connected to a trusted doctor keeps you healthier and saves the system money,” write Tavares and Cohen, who have researched what happens to the health of people over a long period of time in which many lose access to regular care. “Breaking that link does just the opposite.”
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Emily Schwartz Greco
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Seeing the same doctor on a regular basis is good for your health.
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