About 47 million U.S residents; 8.7 million of them children have no healthcare insurance today. Employers are increasingly moving in the direction of having Wal-Mart style health coverage. America's workers are have trouble affording higher premiums, deductibles, and co-payments. Working families are experiencing double-digit increases in the costs of health insurance. According to the Center of Studying Health Systems health insurance rose 10 percent in 2002. We can fix our health care problem if we require employers to pay their fair share. The U.S. system of providing health care coverage is employer-based. Unfortunately, this system leaves too many working families uninsured or under-insured. Fifty-six percent of uninsured workers worked full-time in 2002.To expand health coverage to the 8.7 million children in America who today lack health insurance, Congress in 1997 passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to work with the Medicaid program to cover low- and moderate-income families.
I think that mostly everybody should have an equal amount of health insurance unless you have a career that pays alot of money or is a risk factor to your health. People who get paid alot should have a good amount of health care because anybody could be trying to take thier life because of what they have. If they were to pass away thier family would have a hard time paying off expensive things that were under his/her name. People that have careers with risk factors such as a sport as in football, basketball, hockey, etc; should have really good health insurance because anything could happen while they are in play or out on the streets. People should let others know about there healthcare issues so things can be changed, but they also will need to be fair about it as well.
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/healthcare/whatswrong/
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