Uninsured for Health Care

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This paper describes the problem of insufficient health care in America affecting mostly the near-poor. This is the sector of people who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicare or Medicaid programs and, the paper points out, a sector that is growing. The paper compares the U.S. healthcare system to a sieve, where many members of the population fall through the holes and then takes a look at two possible solutions to the, briefly analyzing their advantages and disadvantages.

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"Our healthcare system is not a bowl that catches everyone. It's more like a sieve. As our population pours into this sieve, some people remain in the bowl while others slip through. 38% of employed Americans under the age of 65 do not get health care. They aren't eligible for Medicare yet, and aren't protected by safety nets such as California's State Children's Health Insurance. Because of our piecemeal system, nearly 45 million Americans lack health care today (KFF, 2004). This number has risen dramatically in the last five years, and now more than one in six adults under the age of sixty-five have no health care."

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