Underinsured find health bills piling up
Miami Herald, September 3, 2009
While covering the uninsured has been a main focus of healthcare reform, millions more fall into the category of "underinsured': those with coverage, but not enough. The underinsured include the working poor whose employers don't provide full coverage, people who lose their jobs and their employer-subsidized insurance, and those who fail to understand the fine print in policy contracts and end up with less coverage than they expected.
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