Leadership Action Plan on the Uninsured: Executive Summary

May 2004 Leadership Action Plan on the Uninsured: Executive Summary Just as employers depend upon an educated workforce to maintain productivity and competitiveness, we also rely upon a healthy workforce. A lack of health insurance typically results in a lack of adequate and timely health care. While difficult to measure, the economic impact of the lack of health insurance on productivity, absenteeism, turnover, and increased health care costs has been estimated to be as high as $152 billion per year. With regard to health care costs, health care providers shift a large portion of the uncompensated costs to payers through . . .