http://www.healthaffairs.org - Excellent articles by some of the nation's leading experts on health care and cost. Particularly relevant:
- Covering the Uninsured: How Much Would It Cost?
- Why Is U.S. Spending So Much Higher?
- Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Stabilize, but Remain High
- Canada's Pharmacare for Seniors
http://www.coveringtheuninsured.org - A multi-organization effort dedicated to achieving universal health insurance. You can sign up for a weekly roundup of news related to the subject.
http://www.kff.org/docs/sections/kcmu/uia2000.html - The Kaiser Family Foundation has produced several informative reports about health care and insurance costs. Several reports focus on minorities, Medicaid, CHIP, and employer-sponsored insurance.
http://www.familiesusa.org - Several extensive reports on Medicaid, Medicare, people without insurance
http://www.acponline.org/uninsured/ - From the American College of Physicials / American Society of Internal Medicine. A web site by doctors that begins with the motto, "Universal, affordable and accessible healthcare is the cure for America's epidemic."
ttp://www.rwjf.org/news/special/careWithoutCoverage.jhtml - 2002 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report, "Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late." Academic examination of the consequences of uninsurance.
"Insurance used to be the thing that stood between people and huge health care bills. Now insurance itself is another huge bill. Or it's just unaffordable. And if you don't have it these days, every day you get up and risk financial disaster." --Sharon Carte, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)director.
One in four working-age West Virginians is without health insurance. More than 60 percent of uninsured West Virginians have jobs.
In the coming months, the Charleston Gazette will explore the reasons why West Virginia's health insurance prices are particularly high. We will introduce you to the people who are uninsured, the people who are teetering on the edge, and the people who are trying to do something about it.



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