06.30.06
Health Insurance Quotes
Health Insurance Quotes
“Increasing costs of physicians’ services, rising costs of prescription drugs, hospital in-patient and out-patient costs, and mostly increase in healthcare spending and utilization,” lead to the double-digit increase in premium every year,
- Wendy Wiederhold
The center’s report says that in 2005, 41.2 million Americans, or 14.2 percent of the population, were uninsured when its survey was conducted. It said 51.3 million had been uninsured for at least part of the prior year and 29.2 million, or 10 percent, had been uninsured for more than a year.
The study is based on a regular survey of more than 98,300 people.
The NCHS, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that insurance coverage varied widely among states, from 6 percent without health insurance in Massachusetts to more than 24 percent without in Texas.
- National Center for Health Statistics Report on Health Insurance Coverage
“I think the results would hold even now. Labor market is a lot weaker. There has been a reduction of non-healthy population and there are now fewer working people. It is possible that small firms are less likely to offer health insurance than in 2001, given that health costs have not stopped rising.”
- James Reschovsky - Center for Studying Health System Change
“There are thousands of trade associations that could participate in the new market, and since many small business owners belong to more than one organization, there would be competition among associations to provide health insurance. One way to gain a “competitive advantage,” would be to provide better healthcare options.
- Amanda Austin, manager of legislative affairs for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
