Coverage that doesn't 'cut it': Under-insured Americans

Let’s get real, folks. The current model of for-profit health insurance isn’t working for far too large a segment of hardworking Americans. No American citizen should be burdened with 45% - that’s right, 45% of their income go for medical bills.

These are your next door neighbors, and the ‘decent’ people who are working really hard - three jobs to provide just the basics… nothing fancy.

You may fear some theoretical ‘slippery slope to socialism’, but I fear families like this being destroyed long before that dive to ‘euro socialism’ ever came to pass. This is what’s happening right now!

Listen to this great feature from this mornings NPR Morning Edition:

Stacks of Medical Bills Afflict the Underinsured by Richard Knox -

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