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American workers loosing health care cover
Health care is the most serious public health issue in the United States and about 47 million American residents do not have any health insurance. This number is rising very fast with employers shifting the burden of health insurance to employees. Due to increased premium co–payments it is beyond the reach of many American citizens.
According to the study of health care system in America it has come to notice that the health care costs are rising quite faster and even in multiples of the rate of inflation.
Recent strike of Southern Californian grocery workers is the example of the massive effect it has on the health of workers. Through their strike these workers have been successful in maintaining their present health cover facilities. Otherwise the general trend of the employer is to shift the burden more and more on the employees for the health care. This is causing great stress for them and as a natural consequence they are not getting health care services as needed as they cannot afford to pay high premium.
The famous and useful Medicare schemes are also under attack and workers are loosing their health care cover altogether. Lack of safety majors have further aggravated the problem as due to insufficient staff in hospitals the cases of medical errors and negligence are rising causing needless deaths of thousands of people.
American health care system is largely employer based and as such too many families are under insured or not insured. Strong federal action compelling the employers to provide essential medical care to employees can only resolve the issue.
Under the new crop of “defined benefit†plan, though they ensure definite health cover, under these plans, the employers pays only a fixed amount irrespective of the cost involved and the remaining portion of the cost is to be borne by the workers. As such many of the workers have to forgo the medical benefits available under these plans.
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