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According to data released at the Kaiser Daily Health Report, thousands of lives could be saved each year in America if everyone had the kind of individual health insurance that provides yearly checkups, and if everyone who had access to them actually went.

The CDC, which helped to fund the study, found that the most dangerous illnesses can be caught with preventative treatment that usually comes at the advice of doctors.

This includes being advised to take low-dose aspirin daily, receiving medications to help stop smoking, annual flu shots, and breast cancer screenings. All of the above are usually provided in the yearly checkups that consumers ought to have covered by individual health insurance.

Unfortunately, the 43 million uninsured in this country don't get those checkups, and therefore aren't diagnosed with disease until it has become very serious. And many more who do have coverage just don't go. This leads to unnecessary deaths, or high medical bills.

This is why it is so important to have individual health insurance that covers yearly checkups. An estimated 100,000 lives could be saved every year if we focused less on treating disease, and more on preventing it.