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We Must Reform Our Nation’s Healthcare System Because Of The Costs It Has On The U.S. Economy
Published 11/19/2008 by New America Foundation at The Hill Blog
... per uninsured resident – more than the cost of providing that person with quality health coverage. Furthermore, health care costs will continue to grow faster than wages if we do not act. This will make health care increasingly unaffordable for more and more American families every day. In fact, we project that in 2016 half of American households will need to spend more than 45 percent of their income to secure health insurance for themselves and their families. Meanwhile, the employer health care burden is undermining the ability of U.S. firms to compete and leading more ...

Gerald McEntee: Health Care Reform - Yes We Can - NOW!
Published 11/19/2008 by Gerald McEntee at Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
... to get worse unless we do something now. The study also finds that without changes, the cost of a family's health insurance will rise so much that by 2016 half of American families "would need to spend more than 45 percent of their income in order to secure health insurance for themselves and their families." We must reform our health care system now to assist working families, to fix the economy, to address the squeeze on state and local government budgets, and to help American businesses struggling to compete while paying for health care benefits for their employees. ...