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Gallup: Health insurance linked to better health habits
From a Media Release
Dec. 30, 2011 10:04 am
The following report is from Gallup:
Twenty percent of insured Americans smoke compared with 36% of the uninsured
This is the second in a series of articles about health insurance coverage in America among adults aged 18 to 64. Part one revealed that health insurance and health outcomes are not necessarily related.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans who have health insurance have higher Healthy Behaviors Index scores than the uninsured at any age in the 18 to 64 cohort. This holds true even after controlling for age, gender, education, ethnicity, employment, and income.
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