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Covering the uninsured: lots of talk, little action.(News)
Publication: Skin & Allergy News Publication Date: 01-JUL-04 Author: Frieden, Joyce
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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
For the uninsured in America, the situation can be summed up as "same old/same old." It's the same old problem, and the same old solutions.
The ranks of the uninsured continue to swell--the latest Census Bureau figures show that nearly 44 million people were uninsured during all or part of 2003. President George W. Bush and likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John F. Kerry are each working hard to convince voters that they have the best ideas for solving the problem. Not to be outdone, a group of Senate Republicans, convened by Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and chaired by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) recently released its own set of proposals for reducing the ranks of uninsured people.
The three proposals have some common elements. For instance, the Senate Republicans' proposal and President Bush's proposal advocate the use of refundable...
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