\n\u2022 The uninsured have a 25 percent greater chance of
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<\/a>\npremature death.
\n\u2022 Nationally, there are 18,000 avoidable deaths annually among
\nthe non-elderly due to lack of health insurance coverage.
\n\u2022 Uninsured women suffering from breast cancer have a 30-50
\npercent greater risk of death than those who are insured.
\n\u2022 Low-income uninsured.**
\n\u2013 4.5 times more likely to have diabetes
\n\u2013 30 percent more likely to have high blood pressure
\n\u2013 50 percent more likely to have high cholesterol
\n\u2013 Almost twice as likely to have fair or poor health
\nHelp for the \u201cuninsurable\u201d
\n\u2022 BCBSNC<\/a> estimated in 2006 that a high-risk pool in North Carolina
\ncould cover 9,000 \u201cmedically uninsurable\u201d citizens, requiring
\na subsidy of approximately $40 million a year.*
\n\u2022 North Carolina legislators are considering creating a state high-risk pool with premiums for eligible individuals capped at 175 percent of individual standard rates.**<\/p>\n
For more information on health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our qualified agents.\u00a0 Our agency provides coverage for health insurance in North Carolina through Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina\u00a0(BCBSNC).\u00a0 <\/a>You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health.\u00a0 Call us for details.\u00a0<\/p>\n BCBSNC data. 2006. Facts The impact of being uninsured* \u2022 The uninsured have a 25 percent greater chance of premature death. \u2022 Nationally, there are 18,000 avoidable deaths annually among the non-elderly due to lack of health insurance coverage. \u2022 Uninsured women suffering from breast cancer have a 30-50 percent greater risk of death than those who are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,58],"tags":[23,136,361,212],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","category-miscellaneous","tag-bcbsnc","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-north-carolina","tag-uninsured-facts","tag-uninsured-impacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHouse Bill 265, 2007 Session of the N.C. General Assembly.
\nInstitute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, \u201dCovering the Uninsured: Being Uninsured Has Adverse Health Consequences.\u201d Fact Sheet. N.C. Task Force on Covering the Uninsured. April 2006.
\nBehavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data. Centers for Disease Control and
\nPrevention. 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"