Our Troubled Health Care System: Why Is It So Hard to Fix? Nineteenth Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy

Judy Feder
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Judy Feder: Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, https://cied.georgetown.edu/judy-feder/

No 37, Center for Policy Research Reports from Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Abstract: This brief draws heavily on Judith Feder, 2004, "Crowd-Out and the Politics of Health Reform," The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethids 32(3): 461-464. We all know that affordable health care is now back on the political agenda, and it's about time! Because all of us--families, businesses, and governments--are struggling with the ever-increasing costs of care. Every year about a million people are added to the rolls of the uninsured. In 2006, it was even more, over 2 million. The number of people without health insurance coverage has reached more than 47 million. People *with* insurance are seeing their benefits dwindle and their health care costs consume their wabes. Even people with health insurance find themselves unable to pay their medical bills and going without needed care. The bottom line is that, increasingly, our health insurance system fails to protect us when we get sick.

Keywords: health insurance; uninsurance; cost of medical care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 H51 I10 I18 L33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2008-01
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