Health Care You Can't Afford Not to Afford

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The New York Times is going to do a series of articles on health care in upcoming issues. Good.

Health Care You Can’t Afford Not to Afford

One in three American families struggles to pay medical bills, according to a recent survey, and nearly half say a family member has postponed necessary medical care.

By WALECIA KONRAD
Published: January 16, 2009
With the recession in full swing, more and more Americans seem to be putting their health-care needs on the back burner as they struggle to handle monthly bills and day-to-day expenses.

About one in three Americans say their family has had problems paying medical bills in the past year, according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group focused on health care. More alarming, almost half of those surveyed said someone in their family was postponing or cutting back on medical care they said they needed.

...More than a third of the people in the Kaiser survey said they were splitting pills, skipping doses of medicine or not filling prescriptions in the first place. “

Amazingly, many developed countries have had public health care for years and in some cases decades.

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1. Yet the corporate media will tell us that "this is in your best interest"

And when they say "your('s)" they really mean their.

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2. I have a chronic disease and I dreamt today that the Insurance

company called to tell me they weren't going to pay anymore of my bills...

It was a nightmare...