Posted by afp on March 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As we recognize “Cover the Uninsured Week,” we can note the ever-increasing number of Americans who don’t have health insurance as well as those who can’t afford the spiraling costs of health insurance premiums and required out-of-pocket expenses. The average health insurance premiums for family coverage have skyrocketed 90 percent since 2000, leaving millions of Americans struggling to meet their health expenses or facing bankruptcy for medical debt. Three out of five adults having problems paying their medical bills had insurance at the time they incurred their debt. Read more
Posted by afp on March 18, 2009 · 9 Comments
Sure, we can argue numbers on health care, as we have been doing incessantly, at the behest of partisan Republicans who mask themselves as nonpartisan fiscal conservative patriots defending mom, apple pie and the American way of health insurance being provided the way it’s always been provided, by for-profit companies that we assume are more efficient than government-run health-care systems in Canada and Britain and every other industrialized nation on the planet, because, yep, we’re the only country in the First World still doing it the inefficient old-fashioned way. Read more
Jill Hanken | Will Congress take up a health-care solution?
Posted by afp on March 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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