Consumer unease with U.S. health care grows

[RedEarth]

Consumer unease with U.S. health care grows
Confusion rampant about what's behind rising costs
By Julie Appleby
USA TODAY

The U.S. health care system — touted as providing the best medical care in the world — is becoming more precarious to most Americans, who are rattled by rising costs, questions about quality and fears about the future.

“If you can afford it, it's the best health care system in the world, but, increasingly, people aren't able to afford it,” says Clyde Bishop, a retired research scientist in Wilmington, Del. He was among those polled about the health care system in a wide-ranging national telephone survey taken in early September by USA TODAY, ABC News and the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The poll found a growing unease in America about the rising cost of health care, confusion about the causes and a desire for major reform. But it also found a distaste for giving anything up to achieve sweeping changes.

An overwhelming 80% of respondents said they were dissatisfied with the total tab the nation spends on health care, estimated to hit $2.2 trillion, or $7,129 a person, this year. The survey, based on a national sample of 1,201 adults, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

“Every year, we wind up paying more and getting less coverage,” says Tammy Dougherty of El Paso. Dougherty, another poll respondent, has health insurance through her husband's job.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061016/1a_cover16.art.htm

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. "unease" - that's a nice euphamism.

How about this title:

"Consumers PISSED OFF at Bullshit U.S. Healthcare System"

[rodeodance]

2. this issue sure is off the headlines!

[Double T]

3. The corrupt corporate American Health Care System...........

is NOTHING BUT a wall street money grab for themselves and the health care elite. Aren't 'YOU' tired of being screwed by your corrupt corporate supporting fellow countrymen. It is time to take back our entire GD nation from the power hungry and wealth grabbing neocon elite.