Did you know?
?Nearly 46 million Americans lack medical coverage.
?Since 2000, more than 5 million Americans under age 65 lost their health insurance.
?Total underinsured and uninsured in the United States: 61 million people. Nearly 48 million Americans will have no health insurance for the entire year in 2005.
?While most Americans with health insurance rely on their employers for access to quality care, employers increasingly are shifting health care costs to workers who struggle to pay higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments.
?More than eight in 10 of the non-elderly uninsured (83 percent) live in families where the head of the family works.
?Health care spending rose 7.7 percent in 2003?following a 9.3 percent increase in 2002.
?In 2003, one-quarter of seniors and 37 percent of the uninsured did not fill a prescription because of cost. Among the chronically ill, 35 percent failed to fill a prescription, changed their dosage or cut back on basic needs because of the high cost of prescription drugs.
?Pharmaceutical spending increased by 11.5 percent annually between 2002 and 2003 and another 8.3 percent between 2003 and 2004.
?From 2000 to 2004, the amount of annual health care premium employees pay for family coverage increased nearly 50 percent, from $1,619 to $2,412.
?The typical family health insurance policy cost $9,068 per year, with employers on average paying 73 percent and employees paying 27 percent.
Reprinted from the national AFL-CIO website, www.aflcio.org
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Did you know?
?Nearly 46 million Americans lack medical coverage.
?Since 2000, more than 5 million Americans under age 65 lost their health insurance.
?Total underinsured and uninsured in the United States: 61 million people. Nearly 48 million Americans will have no health insurance for the entire year in 2005.
?While most Americans with health insurance rely on their employers for access to quality care, employers increasingly are shifting health care costs to workers who struggle to pay higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments.
?More than eight in 10 of the non-elderly uninsured (83 percent) live in families where the head of the family works.
?Health care spending rose 7.7 percent in 2003?following a 9.3 percent increase in 2002.
?In 2003, one-quarter of seniors and 37 percent of the uninsured did not fill a prescription because of cost. Among the chronically ill, 35 percent failed to fill a prescription, changed their dosage or cut back on basic needs because of the high cost of prescription drugs.
?Pharmaceutical spending increased by 11.5 percent annually between 2002 and 2003 and another 8.3 percent between 2003 and 2004.
?From 2000 to 2004, the amount of annual health care premium employees pay for family coverage increased nearly 50 percent, from $1,619 to $2,412.
?The typical family health insurance policy cost $9,068 per year, with employers on average paying 73 percent and employees paying 27 percent.
Reprinted from the national AFL-CIO website, www.aflcio.org