Jan 6 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Rick Schmitt, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes about how the high cost of health coverage may still prevent people from benefiting from pending health care overhaul legislation.
"A sizeable number of those who would qualify for subsidies -- especially people who would be right above the Medicaid cutoff -- could still find health care unaffordable; premiums and out-of-pocket costs like deductibles and co-pays could add up to hundreds or thousands of dollars a year" (1/5) Read entire story.
This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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