Health Care Leaves Uninsured Defenseless

Think the war is expensive? According to the National Coalition of Health Care, "health care spending is 4.3 times the amount spent on national defense."

The rise in costs of health insurance premiums has increased by 87 percent since 2000, compared to 17 percent for consumer prices and 20 percent for earnings. Today's workers currently pay the same price for individual coverage that they paid for an entire family 20 years ago. Americans with employer supplemented coverage spend nearly 20 percent of their income on insurance. The cost prohibits some 47 million Americans from affording health coverage. A lot of them are low income. They make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but they make too little to afford insurance.

While the skyrocketing healthcare costs are unaffordable to most people, uninsured pregnant women find the cost of insurance oppressive. More and more of America's pregnant women carry their babies to term without insurance. The result: less care, less information, less prevention.

The rising cost of health care leaves these women, helpless and their babies, defenseless.

We must make a change today.

Fighting for the uninsured and underinsured pregnant mom and their unborn babies,
Advocate Aaron