And, for once, I want to give credit to a Republican Congressman for bringing this issue forward again.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/06/25/hospitals.uninsured.ap/index.html
I should also mention that a lot of employers these days are attracted to contract labor and part-time labor, merely because they do not have to offer benefits to them. With such a change in the paradigm of employing people, I think that national health care is an inevitability in America.
Melon
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/06/25/hospitals.uninsured.ap/index.html
"An average working man or woman treated at a hospital can be stuck with a bill that is double what managed care or government programs pay," said Greenwood, R-Pennsylvania. "Then, to add insult to injury, they are sometimes aggressively pursued for these inflated debts. This situation is unfair and unjust."
Hospital executives said the cash crunch would best be solved through universal health care coverage for Americans. An estimated 43 million Americans have no health insurance.
Hospitals in the Philadelphia area, for example, charged an average of $30,000 to treat a heart attack in 2002, said Dr. Gerard Anderson, director of the Center for Hospital Finance and Management at Johns Hopkins University. He said most insurers ultimately were asked to pay less than $10,000.
I should also mention that a lot of employers these days are attracted to contract labor and part-time labor, merely because they do not have to offer benefits to them. With such a change in the paradigm of employing people, I think that national health care is an inevitability in America.
Melon