The Providence Journal
September 21, 2003
There’s no shelter from this storm
By John Kostrzewa
Employees used to contribute about 15 percent of the cost of health care. Now, the contribution has risen to 25 percent to 35 percent. And health-care consultants forecast it will grow to 50 percent at some companies.
Some workers are cutting back on health care and elective Surgeries, deciding to live with the bad knee rather than get a replacement. Or they are deciding to postpone the eye exam to avoid the copay. Or they are going without health insurance.
No relief is on the horizon.
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Comment: Current health care reform efforts continue down this path of shifting costs to patients. But is this really reform? Reform is defined as a change for the better. Reducing affordable access to beneficial health care services is a change for the worse.
Let’s dump this movement to shift costs to patients and get on with the process of real reform!