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Healthcare And The Problems It Causes

With health care on the rise and the demands for health care the unmoneyed can not receive the same level of care as a person with financial wealth. According to the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) and the Current population Survey (CPS) 60.4% of people in 2003 had employment based health insurance, 26.6% had government health insurance, and 15.6% were without health insurance. In 1997 98 million people who were offered health insurance, 13 million of those chose not to participate. Of those 13 million 3 million stated cost was the reason they didn't participate and 10 million had coverage through another source. (US Census 2006)
In 2005 health expenditures rose 6.9% two times the rate of inflation. Total spending rose to $2 trillion or $6,700 per person. Nearly 47 million Americans are uninsured, causing the United States to spend more on health care than other industrialized nations. Those countries provide health insurance to all their citizens. Due to the rising cost of health insurance most people are not insured. If a member of the family was in an accident or became seriously ill and had to spend one night in the hospital, or have a costly procedure, the resulting medical bill can affect the stability of the whole family. More than 25% of people say that housing problems are a result of medical debt. Since health care has increased along with the increase of health insurance charity facilities are over crowded and under staffed. This causes many ill patients to wait several hours in waiting rooms. Many leave without seeing a physician or having test ran. According to Dr. James B. Falterman Sr. the health care system is a joke. Dr. Falterman Sr. stated "a person with a serious illness can wait 3 weeks or longer for an appointment at a charity facility". Patients who decide to wait have no choice since they are unable to afford medications and treatment from a private health care physician.
USA Today, The Kaiser Family...

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