An eroding model for health insurance

Working Americans once could rely on employer-based benefits. But more people are being forced into the individual market, where coverage is costly, bare-bones and precarious.

The health insurance system has become increasingly expensive and inaccessible. It leaves patients responsible for bills they understood would be covered, squeezes doctors and hospitals, and tries to avoid even minuscule risks, such as providing coverage to a newborn with no serious illness. Full Story »

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Ron Pulcini
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by Ron Pulcini - Oct. 22, 2008

The article fed the flames of seething anger I've had about the heath insurance industry for the past thirty years. But with so many sad, sad tales of "med-woe" out there, it couldn't have taken much discovery work to find them. Ergo, Girion & Hiltzik's piece is more of an update of a long-term problem than it is incisive, prescient journalism. Sure would make a great first chapter in an in-depth study of the problem — especially were it to advocate for universal health care.

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