Video: American families struggle to cover health-care costs

The Kaiser Family Foundation has produced a documentary called Snapshots from the Kitchen Table: Family Budgets and Health Care, that profiles several American families who are struggling to make ends meet in the face of high health-care costs.

To learn more:

• Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Web site where you can find a report and additional information on the cost of healthcare and the impact it is having on some American families.
• Read our story about the new Institute of Medicine’s report on the U.S. health insurance “crisis”

Some local resources that can help with insurance problems are: 

• Children’s Health Program (for non-citizens, visitors, undocumented): http://fortress.wa.gov/dshs/maa/chip
• TRICARE (military insurance, families, retired, etc.): www.tricare.osd.mil
• Washington’s Apple Health for Kids (insurance assistance): http://fortress.wa.gov/dshs/maa/applehealth/
• Washington Basic Health (insurance assistance): www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov/understanding.shtml
• Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner: www.insurance.wa.gov

Tags: Health Insurance, Health-care Reform, Healthcare Policy, Insurance

Category: Health Insurance, Health-care Policy, Insurance