Tag: medical care
At $140 billion, the nation’s unpaid medical bills are the single largest form of past due debt. One thing driving this is no doubt rising deductibles for health insurance. A third of insured Americans said in a survey that it is difficult to pay the deductibles in their employer health insurance plans and in t…
The Affordable Care Act gives a carrot to states that expand Medicaid from a health insurance program mainly for poor people to one that also includes low-income workers. Under the 2010 law, the federal government initially paid the full cost of adding more people to the Medicaid rolls, and a large majority of states hav…
