The health care/insurance crisis continues to take shape, as a study being released today shows that the number of middle income Americans going without health insurance jumps:
Forty-one percent of adults with incomes between $20,000 and $40,000 a year did not have health insurance for at least part of 2005, up from 28 percent without coverage in 2001, according to the report by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health care policy foundation.
The article goes on to describe a number of issues, one being that a large percentage of people who are in medical debt HAD coverage at the time of their illness:
More than half of 4,350 people surveyed in the Commonwealth study said they had medical debt or bill problems. More than a third reported problems or delays in getting care due to costs. Nearly two-thirds of adults with problems paying medical bills said they or a family member was insured when they incurred the debt.
Read the Full article here.
It seems to me that the folks who are pushing so hard against consumer driven health care don’t have all the facts straight - more high priced insurance that leaves consumers in debt doesn’t seem like the way to avert the impending crisis.
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