Fifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies place on their patients’ care, according to the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.
Families saw their premiums for job-based health insurance rise to an average of $13,375 annually in 2009, with workers paying an average share of $3,515 and employers paying $9,860.
More than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies involve medical bills, according to researchers at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University.
Read MoreThat is the finding of a Kaiser Family Foundation survey.
Read MoreOne benefit of everyone having health insurance could be fewer racial, ethnic and socio-economic disparities in care.
The new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that 21 percent of U.S. residents reported having difficulty paying for needed medical care or medications in December 2008, up from 18 percent in January 2008.
While feigning support for health care reform, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is already trying to torpedo President Obama’s “down payment on health care reform.”
Read MoreThe Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System has released a report offering recommendations for comprehensive health system reforms, including the creation of a new public health insurance plan, that "could guarantee affordable coverage for all by 2012, improve health outcomes, and slow health spending growth by $3 trillion by 2020—if enacted now to start in 2010."
Since the recession began, an estimated 4 million additional Americans have lost their health insurance and 2 million have become uninsured.
Read MoreWellCare Health Plans is the second insurance company this year ordered by the government to stop enrolling new customers in its Medicare drug and health plans.
A new poll found there is "intense and widespread voter support" for the choice of a public health insurance plan as part of comprehensive, national health care reform.
Read MoreOne in seven Americans younger than 65 couldn't afford to fill prescriptions in 2007, up from one in ten in 2003.
Read MoreA new report finds that for many people, the answer is “No.”
Read MoreA new report outlines why a public health insurance plan that competes directly with private insurers is essential to controlling health care costs.
Read MoreHealth insurance coverage for low-income families is at risk due to stretched state budgets and growing need.
Read MoreAbout one in three Americans now report their family has had problems paying medical bills in the past year, up from about a quarter saying the same two years ago.
A recent report concludes the decline in coverage has been due both to falloffs in the share of employees with access to employer insurance and decreasing take-up rates among workers.
Read MoreOne result is that the number of people without health insurance goes up.
The vast majority of Americans and industry leaders, according to a new survey by NACHRI and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Fifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies place on their patients’ care, according to the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey.
Families saw their premiums for job-based health insurance rise to an average of $13,375 annually in 2009, with workers paying an average share of $3,515 and employers paying $9,860.
