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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 [...]

Like the economy, health-care reform is in the voter spotlight. This is not surprising as it is estimated that over 100 million adults are uninsured, underinsured, are having problems with medical bills, or are not getting needed care because of cost.
THe different approaches to this national tragedy is the topic of a new report, Presidential [...]

Along with the economey and the war in Irac, healthcare is a major concern of voters in this election.  The system is simply broken, badly, both from a providor and a patient perspective.  Of course, any system with an estimated 45 million uninsured is in crisis.
Here is an essential camparison of the programs offered by [...]

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 [...]

The U.S. health care system could save 100,000 lives and up to $100 billion annually if it improved performance on key indicators.
In case you have been living “off world”, this may come as a surprise.  Access to healthcare in the U.S. is getting worse and an overall a poor system is not getting better.  At [...]