Nearly Half of Working Americans in Medical Debt
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund indicates that 79 million Americans are suffering under the burden of medical debt or medical bill problems, or 41% of working-age Americans. This data hardly comes as a surprise, considering that 9 million Americans have lost their health insurance coverage since 2000. But are medical costs due only to the growing number of uninsured?
Are you struggling with debt or dealing with a pile up of bills because you are uninsured? Or, are you insured, but for some reason have found that your insurance doesn’t cover your medical expenses
I wonder what people who are struggling with medical bill debt think about reforming the U.S. health care system. Do they support universal health care, or are they more in favor of a private health insurance system. Perhaps the growing number of people in medical debt (and the growing medical debt issue overall) is yet another symptom of how private health insurance might be a failing proposition for many American families.
The issue with private insurance is the preexisting condition clauses. As a cancer survivor I can’t get private insurance companies to write me an individual policy. What we need is to not allow the companies to ask questions about our health when we are shopping for policies. This is what they do for the equal opportunity employment, never in an interview do they ask personal questions but for health care they can discriminate anyway the insurance company wants.