Some Chronically Ill Adults Wait for Medicare to Arrive

"When uninsured adults with common chronic illnesses became eligible for Medicare, they saw doctors and were hospitalized more often and reported greater medical expenses than people who had had insurance." This article references results of a reseach study led by Dr. John Z. Ananian, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, that used data from the Health and Retirement Study. "Dr. Ayanian and his colleagues focused on 5,158 [of 9,760 adults aged 51 to 61 in 1992] ... who survived to age 65 by 2004 and who either had private insurance or no insurance at all before receiving Medicare."