Rising Health Care costs Leaves Millions Uncovered

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The rising cost of health insurance is leaving more Americans without coverage and driving businesses overseas.

A national organization for health care organizations, Families USA, has analyzed the issue and found disturbing trends.  Since 2000, there has been a “huge erosion” in the portion of the U.S. population that has employer-sponsored health insurance.

“Between 2000 and 2009, the portion of the population with job-based health insurance has diminished from 64.2 percent to 55.8 percent, a significant drop of 8.4 percentage points,” it said.

At the same time, the U.S. population has increased to 304 million from 278 million. However, the number of people, including family members, with employer-sponsored health insurance has dropped from 179.4 million to 169.7 million.

The reason for the decline is the high cost of health coverage for businesses.

An annual family premium for job-based health coverage has doubled since 2000 to $13,375 from $6,438.

To offset the cost, there’s also been a painful side effect: Employers are subcontracting work so they don’t have to provide health benefits or they are outsourcing jobs to countries where the government provides national health care.

Families USA also found that the number of uninsured Americans in 2009 grew from 38.4 million to 50.7 million and one in six Americans can’t afford to buy health insurance.

Whatever happened to the promise made by President Franklin Roosevelt about America’s Four Freedoms, especially freedom from want and fear? How can one live in peace knowing a loved one may not receive health care when it could be a matter of life and death?

This is shameful.

Editorial courtesy of the Macomb Daily, a Journal Register Company newspaper.