Unemployment adds 9 million uninsured in U.S.

[iwishiwas]

The new health insurance reform of 2014 will NOT be affordable with the lower paying jobs that being created. NOPE.


http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/healthcare/insurance/story/2011/03/Unemployment-adds-9-million-uninsured-in-US/45047794/1

Unemployment adds 9 million uninsured in U.S.
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay

Updated 2d 3h ago

The millions of Americans who lost their jobs and their health benefits during the recession often had no way to regain affordable health coverage, leaving them and their families at risk of financial ruin, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.

The spate of layoffs during the recession catapulted 9 million more Americans — or 57% of those who had had health insurance in a job that evaporated over the last two years — into the ranks of the millions already uninsured.

In addition, 19 million people anxiously seeking private coverage over the last three years were either turned down or could not find a plan that was affordable and met their needs, the report found.

The Biennial Health Insurance Survey also found a whopping 60% increase in skipped care due to cost in the past decade. The survey reported that medical debt problems and out-of-pocket spending costs were on the rise as well, with 29 million Americans using up their entire life savings to pay for medical bills and millions more unable to afford food, heat and rent due to medical payments.

"The report tells the story of the continuing deterioration of health care accessibility, efficiency, safety and affordability over the past decade," Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis said during a noon press conference Tuesday. All this despite the fact that the United States spends more than any other country on health care, she added.........

[leftstreet]

1. At what point can we start calling this collateral damage?

K&R

[Wilms]

2. Then we need to give billions to the insurance companies to cover their reduced profits.

I trust the administration will be sensitive to their needs.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Wasn't education supposed to become more affordable too?

I hope we don't get any more of these changes.

[Mimosa]

4. I'm among that number.

It's scary.

[iwishiwas]

5. I recently found a part time job-no benefits at all. It is scary living

day to day knowing that if my health goes so do I.

[sakabatou]

7. Those will be the jobs many of us will have to take.

[populi]

6. Unemployment

It's scary.
Read also this interesting article: http://www.alternet.org/world/149324/america_in_decline%3A_why_germans_think_we%27re_insane/

[Le Taz Hot]

8. I'm just all giddy at the prospect of

paying $750.00 per year per person in my household to NOT be covered because the actual premiums an insurance company would charge us are even less affordable -- about $900.00 a month with a $4,000 annual deductible. Honest to goddess, I'm hoping this SC will shoot this down.