Forty-one percent of adults with incomes between $20,000 and $40,000 a year did not have health insurance for at least part of 2005, up from 28 percent without coverage in 2001, according to the report by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health care policy foundation.
The report illustrates how employers are dropping health coverage or are offering insurance plans that are too expensive for many workers to afford, according to the authors.
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More than half of 4,350 people surveyed in the Commonwealth study said they had medical debt or bill problems. More than a third reported problems or delays in getting care due to costs. Nearly two-thirds of adults with problems paying medical bills said they or a family member was insured when they incurred the debt.
Jump in middle-income Americans who go without health insurance (SF Chronicle)
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