According to a U.S. Census Bureau report issued this week, another two million Americans have joined the ranks of the uninsured in the past year. The number of uninsured Americans increased from an estimated 44.8 to 47 million. This represents 15.8 percent of the U.S. population. The percent and the number of children under 18 [...]
Entries from August 2007
August 22, 2007
Who You Gonna Call?
Who is available in the middle of the night to answer your medical questions? Who can direct you to vital social service assistance or information, or enroll uninsured families in low-cost insurance programs? Who can help underserved families navigate the increasingly complex healthcare system?
PHiL can, that’s who—or, more precisely—that’s what.
The Pasadena Healthcare information Link—PHL for [...]
August 7, 2007
Unavailable or Out of Reach
The vast majority of working adults who are treated at CHAP are working adults. There was a time when employment meant having access to health insurance, but those days are long gone. More and more employers are placing a greater burden of insurance premiums on employees or dropping coverage altogether, leaving workers and their families [...]
