Hispanics struggle to cover health care costs
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
Online Exclusive
By: Jaime Zea, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/30/07
Having medical insurance usually is seen as an advantage. However, because of the high costs of medicine and hospitals, those without insurance face serious problems when they have to pay costly medical bills after some kind of uncovered treatment.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 15 percent of the country’s population doesn’t have access to prepaid medicine.
In most cases, this can be problematic when immediate medical care is needed.
"When it is about an operation or transplant organ, if one does not have insurance, no attention is given," said Adam Searing, of the N.C. Justice Center.
Generally, people without medical insurance only seek care in the case of an emergency.
However, after the emergency, hospitals naturally expect patients to pay for their treatment.
Since it is nearly impossible for many people to pay for the services they received without insurance, theses costs are transferred to other consumers. (more…)
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