The Implications of Health-Care Reform.
This article comes from MSNBC.
” With the U.S. presidential election coming this November, health care reform is becoming a political priority in a way it hasn’t since the Clinton Administration in the early 1990s. What are the implications for health care companies payers, providers, and manufacturers? While it’s too early to say for sure, most of the solutions presented so far share underlying principles that we think enable realistic discussion.
We believe an ongoing flow of statistics underscores the current health care system’s flaws: In 2006, about 47 million Americans lacked health insurance, up 8.6 million from 2000, according to The Commonwealth Fund, a health care policy think tank. A Commonwealth study released in June 2008 noted that the number of underinsured American adults rose nearly 60% to 25 million in 2007, from 16 million in 2003. The underinsured have health coverage, but still face access and financial constraints similar to uninsured people.” Click here to read the rest of this article.
