Study Shows Insured Americans Risk Health to Avoid High Co-Payments | Black Agenda Report

Study Shows Insured Americans Risk Health to Avoid High Co-Payments | Black Agenda Report

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

With insurance companies flush with cash and their shareholders pocketing impressive dividends, rising insurance rates and punitive co-payments have terrorized much of the public into putting off visits to the doctor and postponing important tests.” Such is the “insanity of private health care,” in which insurers are allowed to charge high rates and co-payments “that prevent their own customers from obtaining needed health care.”