475,000 New Mexicans Are In Families That Will Spend More Than 10 Percent Of Their Income On Health Care In 2009

A report released by the consumer health organization Families USA spotlights a growing crisis among insured families, as rising health care costs devour a growing portion of their pre-tax income. In the United States, 64.4 million people under age 65 are in families that will spend more than 10 percent of their pre-tax family income on health care in 2009, and 82.6 percent of those people are insured-an increase of 22.7 million such people since 2000.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on May 12th, 2009