49 Percent of Americans Unprepared to Pay For Medical EmergencyIn medical news, a new study by Consumer Reports has found that 16 percent of the U.S. population has no health insurance and that another 24 percent of Americans are living with skeletal health insurance that barely covers their medical needs and leaves them unprepared to pay for major medical expenses. Overall Forty-nine percent of Americans surveyed said they were "somewhat" to "completely" unprepared to cope with a costly medical emergency over the coming year. The Consumer Reports investigation notes that the nation's six biggest private health insurers collectively earned nearly $11 billion in profits last year.
Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org 8/7/07
49 Percent of Americans Unprepared to Pay For Medical EmergencyIn medical news, a new study by Consumer Reports has found that 16 percent of the U.S. population has no health insurance and that another 24 percent of Americans are living with skeletal health insurance that barely covers their medical needs and leaves them unprepared to pay for major medical expenses. Overall Forty-nine percent of Americans surveyed said they were "somewhat" to "completely" unprepared to cope with a costly medical emergency over the coming year. The Consumer Reports investigation notes that the nation's six biggest private health insurers collectively earned nearly $11 billion in profits last year.
Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org 8/7/07
It is quite simply time to take things into our own hands.
Collectively we could fix this problem with or without the politicians by self-insuring by municipality like the Germans do. In the coming blog entries I will be detailing what other countries do and why they pay half to a third of what we pay. Then I will give a step by step plan for insuring your municipality and undercutting the for-profit insurance industry and their on-the-take politicians.