An eroding model for health insurance

Working Americans once could rely on employer-based benefits. But more people are being forced into the individual market, where coverage is costly, bare-bones and precarious.

The health insurance system has become increasingly expensive and inaccessible. It leaves patients responsible for bills they understood would be covered, squeezes doctors and hospitals, and tries to avoid even minuscule risks, such as providing coverage to a newborn with no serious illness. Full Story »

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3.2
by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 22, 2008

Lots of anecdotes about problems patients have with insurance companies. Could be much more concise, use more statistics, include problems physicians and hospitals have with insurance companies, and correlate with information about the health care system.

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