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Many children without health insurance go without care all year.
Uninsured children in families earning between approximately $38,000 and $76,000 a year are about as likely to go without any health care as uninsured children in poorer families. The study, by Laura Shone, an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, dispels [...]

They receive unpredictable, rationed access to health care as hospitals do not adhere to their own policies.
A case study of three health care institutions — public, for-profit and not-for-profit — within one metropolitan area found that self-pay patients must navigate a system that provides no guarantees medical centers will follow their own policies for providing [...]

Americans health insurance coverage continues to plummet.
 
The shyrocketing cost of a healthcare system controlled by large pharmaceutical and insurance companies continues to make decent health care a luxury for more and more Americans.  While the number of uninsured Americans keeps growing, the number of under insured also continues to grow.  This number is up 60 [...]