Given the high costs of U.S. healthcare, insurance is obviously the way most Americans are able to gain some kind of access to the health system.
According to the latest (January–March 2015) National Health Interview Survey (pdf), about two-thirds of Americans below the age of 65 rely on private health insurance. The rest either don’t have health insurance coverage (10.7 percent) or have some kind of public health plan (24.2 percent).
The problem is, even without the latest proposed mega-mergers, the U.S. private health- insurance industry is already highly concentrated.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Unhealthy healthcare
Click here to access article by David Ruccio from Occasional Links & Commentary.