North Carolina Health Insurance

A new report by Families USA, says 3 North Carolinians die each day because they don't have health insurance.

The Families USA report for Health Insurance in North Carolina makes three specific points about uninsured adults:

* Nearly three working-age North Carolinians die each day due to lack of health insurance

* Between 2000 and 2006, the estimated number of adult age North Carolina residents who died because they did not have health insurance was nearly 5,600.

* Across the country (in 2006) twice as many people died from a lack of health insurance covergae as died from homicide.

In its 2002 report, the Institute of Medicine estimated that 18,000 adults nationwide died in 2000 because they did not have health insurance. That estimate was later updated by the Urban Institute, which reported that at least 22,000 adults died in 2006 due to a lack of health insurance.