Opinion: Health care reform and “unheathy ignorance”
REGIONAL/NATIONAL–Asheville Citizen-Times editorial page editor and columnist Jim Buchanan, a Sylva native, holds forth on health care reform.
His lead:
If I were king of the world, here’s what I’d like to see: A health care — or more accurately, a health insurance — system that doesn’t hold the possibility of knocking families out of the middle class. And I mean clean out of the park. A recent study by the American Journal of Medicine showed medical costs factored into 62 percent of individual bankruptcies. The Washington Post reported 75 percent of those who filed had some sort of medical insurance, yet wound up an average of $18,000 in debt. Those who didn’t have insurance piled up around $27,000 in medical debt.
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