It’s 2007 — Do You Know Where Your Health Insurance Is?
This week is Cover the Uninsured Week, a special weeklong event promoted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to raise awareness about the issue of uninsured children.
Ten years ago, Congress authorized the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide health coverage for children living in families earning too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance. The Foundation is working to make sure this program is reauthorized by Congress this year.
But while you’re thinking about health insurance, consider this: More than 45 million Americans are uninsured — and many of those are employed. The total spending on healthcare in the US is $2 trillion — 16 percent of our total GDP. These are big numbers, meaning healthcare coverage is a big issue for all of us.
To help Monster members better understand these complex issues, we’ve pulled together a series of articles about health insurance and enlisted the help of two experts to provide advice and commentary. Here are a few of the resources we’ve gathered on this topic:
- “Risky Healthcare: Excerpt from The Great Risk Shift“
- “Condition Critical: A Look at America’s Ailing Health Insurance System“
- “The Working Uninsured“
- “No Easy Healthcare Lessons from Other Countries“
- “Health Insurance Reform’s Effect on Workers and Employers“
- “Consumer-Driven Health Plans“
Our special guest experts, Dr. Jacob Hacker, professor of political science at Yale University and author of The Great Risk Shift, and Bianca DiJulio, policy analyst for the Health Care Marketplace Project at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, will be online this week (April 23-28) to respond to questions and comments. Visit the Health Insurance Anxiety message board to participate in this important discussion.
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