Every year, unpaid medical treatment accrued from the uninsured costs Americans tens of billions of dollars.
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If we choose the status quo, more Americans will be uninsured, costs will continue to rise, and every American's health care will be at risk.
Turning lemons into lemonade: Beyond the Medicaid population, there remains a large group of people who are uninsured often due to costs.
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Congress could pass a law requiring all persons filing income tax to pay a surcharge to cover health care costs of uninsured Americans, while at the same time giving an offsetting tax credit to anyone who purchased or otherwise received health insurance.
Millions of uninsured impose billions of dollars in costs on Americans nationwide.
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One of the things that happens when people are uninsured is that we pay additional costs when these patients get their care from the places that are least efficient in dealing with them: emergency rooms.
The sad reality is that the uninsured don't just struggle with costs themselves, they impose costs on the rest of us.
The indirect costs of providing care for the uninsured, they argue, are too big a burden to be ignored.
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The low overall enrollment versus earlier projections implies that premiums, while far below medical costs, remain higher than many uninsured people with pre-existing conditions are willing to pay.
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Ever-rising health costs drive people to the ranks of uninsured.
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Earlier Tuesday, the Obama administration laid out its estimates of how the U.S. economy might benefit if health care costs are brought to heel and the uninsured get coverage.
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Forced upon no one, the public option is simply a proposed addition to the several existing private insurance choices available to American health-care consumers that, when enacted, will help cut costs and provide coverage to millions of uninsured Americans.
Uninsured patients are the primary driver of increased health care costs.
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The mandate tries to end the free-riding that occurs when the uninsured receive free care at hospitals, which pass the costs to everyone else in the form of higher fees.
The health overhaul was of course supposed to be about expanding coverage to the uninsured and slowing down the inexorable rise in health care costs, though the second goal was more talk than reality.
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Michael Carvin, an attorney representing private plaintiffs including the National Federation of Independent Business, rejected the government's premise that 40 million uninsured Americans are distorting the health-care market by shifting costs of free emergency-room care to taxpayers and insurance ratepayers.
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As regulations increase, insurance costs will go up, and the number of those uninsured will rise.
An estimated 45.7 million Americans are uninsured, and for those with coverage, and health-care costs have been rising four times faster than wages, Obama said.
But slowing the rise of health-care costs can't address the challenge of adding 50 million uninsured to the system while keeping expenditures the same or even somewhat lower than the unsustainable percentage of national wealth that they already represent.
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With the number of uninsured people in the U.S. continuing to grow and health care costs rapidly rising above the rate of inflation, politicians will be tempted to load health care costs directly onto the backs of businesses.
" And in a comment that pleased the health law's backers, he said uninsured young people are "very close to affecting the rates of insurance and the costs of providing medical care in a way that is not true in other industries.
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Uninsured Americans who can afford to buy health insurance are free riders who impose their private costs on society.
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These higher costs on young people are especially significant because about two-thirds of the uninsured population is under the age of 40.
McCain argues that the increased competition will lower health care costs, which will allow more of the roughly 47 million Americans who are uninsured into the system.
There is much discussion regarding various efforts to manage healthcare costs by 3rd party payers and those paying individually (e.g. the uninsured).
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If we continue on our current path, health care costs will consume 34 percent of our GDP by 2040, and the number of uninsured Americans will rise to 72 million, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.
Here are the facts: Health care reform ends the worst practices of insurance companies, brings down costs for families and small businesses, and expands coverage to 32 million Americans who are currently uninsured.
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