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Understand the Big Picture, Please, Pt.5 – Cheap health insurance doesn’t cut it!

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Karen Davis is the president of the Commonwealth Fund group. As spokesperson for the group, she feels it important to remind us that we must not let the $700 billion debacle cloud over the urgency of health insurance/care reform. She reminds us of the unbroken trend of the continued increase of Americans not having health insurance. The number has increased by 20% since 1999. It seems that only the Commonwealth Fund has taken up the arduous task of another very serious problem. That is the crisis of the wellbeing for those with inadequate health insurance.

This is not just an inconvenience or mere cramp in lifestyle. The under-insured represent a significant percentage of the most common cause of personal bankruptcy in out nation. In many cases, these people are struggling to ‘do the right thing’ by securing the best health insurance they can afford. Unfortunately, the insurance they can afford is inadequate. They’re already at the point where whole families have to go without food, heating fuel and needed healthcare just to keep up payments on this health insurance.

Herein lies another very important direct crisis issue. Destitute working families with health insurance being bankrupted by medical bills. Cheap insurance just doesn’t work! It must be both; affordable and adequate.

There seems to no evidence that Mr. McCain has ever addressed this issue. He needs to, or else explain why. C’mon mediators. This is core stuff. No more side-stepping. We need explanations. Just providing cheap health insurance just won’t cut it!

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