Uninsured U.S. Residents Will Spend $30B Out-of-Pocket On Health Care This Year, While Receiving $56B In Uncompensated Care, Study Finds

Uninsured U.S. residents will spend about $30 billion out-of-pocket on health care this year, while other parties — mainly the government — will spend about $56 billion on uncompensated care for the uninsured, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Health Affairs, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on September 8th, 2008