As Health Costs Rise, Loss of Coverage Accelerates
Amid all the misleading talk about “death panels,” the “public option,” and the supposed “government takeover” of health care, it’s easy to miss how the lack of healthcare reform is affecting Americans. But Families USA, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, is doing its best to keep our eyes on the prize. Families USA’s most recent report shows the toll that rapidly rising healthcare costs are taking on the insured. From 2000 to 2009, the report said, the cost of employer-based insurance for a family increased by 95.2 percent, while median family income advanced only 17.5 percent. Families USA blamed the huge rate increase on “the rising cost and increased use of medical treatments, inadequate oversight of insurance companies, lack of…
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