How Sick is This?

In only four years the number of Americans who either have no health insurance or are under-insured jumped 60 percent. A report by The Commonwealth Fund showed that 42 percent of Americans cannot gain access to much needed medical care because they are either without health insurance, or their out of pocket medical expenses in proportion to their income is far too high.

The majority of insured Americans are currently being covered by employer-sponsored health plans, and the rates for family coverage within those plans raised more than 90 percent since the year 2000. Perhaps the most disturbing information came from Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. She noted, “At least 25 percent of employers terminate employment the day you become disabled.”

Click here to read why the lobbyists for the healthcare industry and those they mingle with in our government make it so difficult to live the American dream since they make it so difficult to simply “live”.