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Health Reform Failure
Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, The Boston Globe via Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Sept. 18, 2007

Excerpt: Now, according to the Census Bureau's latest figures, we're back where we started, with 47 million uninsured in 2006 - up 2.2 million since 2005. But this time, most of the uninsured are neither poor nor elderly. The middle class is being priced out of healthcare. Virtually all of this year's increase was among families with incomes above $50,000; in fact, two-thirds of the newly uncovered were in the above-$75,000 group. And full-time workers accounted for 56 percent of the increase[.]  MORE >>

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