Health Care Costs Cripple Consumers

Here are a couple articles worth reading that are on an important issue that is currently outside the limelight.

The lovely high-deductible accounts that the right favors seem like they would further compound the problems that are currently being seen... without the touted flexibility either (and I haven't even begun to pick at it from a public health standpoint in terms of the value of preventive care)

And check this out:

The average bankrupt person surveyed had spent $13,460 on co-payments, deductibles and uncovered services if they had private insurance. People with no insurance spent an average of $10,893 for such out-of-pocket expenses.

How the hell did that happen?