Description/Abstract
This brief draws heavily on Judith Feder, 2004, "Crowd-Out and the Politics of Health Reform," The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 32(3): 461-464. We all know that affordable health care is now back on the political agenda, and it's about time! Because all of us--families, businesses, and governments--are struggling with the ever-increasing costs of care. Every year about a million people are added to the rolls of the uninsured. In 2006, it was even more, over 2 million. The number of people without health insurance coverage has reached more than 47 million. People *with* insurance are seeing their benefits dwindle and their health care costs consume their wages. Even people with health insurance find themselves unable to pay their medical bills and going without needed care. The bottom line is that, increasingly, our health insurance system fails to protect us when we get sick.
Document Type
Policy Brief
Date
2008
Keywords
health insurance, cost of medical care, Nineteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy
Language
English
Series
Reports Series
Disciplines
Health Policy
Recommended Citation
Feder, Judy, "Our Troubled Health Care System: Why Is It So Hard to Fix?" (2008). Center for Policy Research. 6.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/6
Source
Metedata from RePec
Creative Commons License
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