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Do You Think Paying $11,000 for Health Insurance is Reasonable? |
Well, we don't!
A recent study found that the average family pays $10,728 each year for health insurance.
Also, more than 30,000 employers who once offered health insurance to their employees chose to STOP offering benefits, resulting in more than 4 million people losing insurance.
The current health care crisis has forced people to take drastic measures to get insurance. The same study found that 7 percent of Americans said they or someone in their household decided to marry in the last year so they could obtain health care benefits!
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation rightfully said, "Providing insurance coverage takes a bigger bite from the family budget every year."
Our legislators need to enact health care reform NOW! Pennsylvania's families cannot wait another day.
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Even the Insured Feel Strain of Health Costs |
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The New York Times
BY REED ABELSON & MILT FREUDENHEIM
Sunday, May 4, 2008
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health
insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have
insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot
afford their own share of medical costs.
Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance
are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they
used to be — often because of some combination of higher premiums, less
extensive coverage, and bigger out-of-pocket deductibles and
co-payments.
With medical costs soaring, the coverage many
people have may not adequately protect them from the financial shock of
an emergency room visit or a major surgery. For some, even routine
doctor visits might now take a back seat to basic expenses like food
and gasoline.
“It just keeps eating into people’s income,” said
James Corbin, a former union official who works for the local utility
in Tucson.
Mr. Corbin said that under their employer’s health
plan, he and his co-workers are now obliged to pay up to $4,000 of
their families’ annual medical bills, on top of about $1,600 a year in
premiums. Five years ago, they paid no premiums and were responsible
for only about $2,000 of their families’ medical bills.
“That’s a big jump,” Mr. Corbin said. “You’ve just lost a month’s pay.”
To read this article, click here.
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The Uninsured Need Action NOW! |
The fight for health care reform in Pennsylvania began last year...
Why are we still waiting?
An editorial in The Allentown Morning Call asks why our calls for access to quality, affordable health care for every Pennsylvanian still have not been answered.
"More than a year ago, Gov. Ed Rendell made access to health care a
major issue in this state with his ''Cover All Pennsylvanians''
proposal. Since then, the fact that tens of millions of Americans lack
health insurance has become a major issue in the presidential race, too.
However, little has changed either in the state or the nation.
Hundreds
of thousands of Pennsylvanians live day-to-day without health
insurance, hoping to stay healthy because they can't afford to get
sick. Meanwhile, state lawmakers can't agree on either the scope of
health care reform, its cost, or how to pay for it."
The working poor in Pennsylvania can't wait much longer. The health care crisis in our Commonwealth grows worse each day.
The uninsured can't afford to wait.
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