SICKO - over 48 MILLION without health insurance! - medical billing news.

There are over 48 MILLION Americans with NO health insurance.
There are approx. 32 million others who are underinsured. In the past four years the number of uninsured rose by 6 million people and more American's are forced each year to file for bankrupcy due to medical bills.

There are a handful of self-serving, powerful special interest groups who are unraveling our economy and holding us hostage. They are the American Medical Association (AMA) America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the pharmaceutical industry. These groups are the gatekeepers of our health and spend HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars in advertising, lobbying and political contributions to keep their beds feathered and to keep the status quo.

Historically, the AMA has been the worst and most self-serving group who has, since 1912 opposed health care reform and national health insurance at least six times when reform has been seriously discussed in America. The AMA has opposed national health insurance even before there was a health insurance industry, scaring Americans into thinking national health insurance was communism and a big government takeover.

Almost 100 years has passed since the first discussion of national health insurance and we, as a nation, are more held hostage by the whims and desires of the health care/health insurance giants than ever before.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP PANDERING TO THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY LOBBY and make them work on our behalf, for our best interest, and make them stop holding America hostage? 18,000 people per year die because they don't have health insurance and the health industry enjoys being able to charge whatever they please and decide which services they will provide us, if, indeed, they will provide services at all.