America is facing a health care crisis. As of 2006, 47 million U.S. residents have no health insurance, and the numbers keep growing. That's 47 million people who face bankruptcy if they get sick—or who might avoid seeking treatment altogether. Meanwhile, a few big health care players are making big, big profits—at the expense of working families. Who are the uninsured? More than eight in 10 uninsured come from working families—nearly 70 percent from families with one or more full-time worker. More than 10 million children are uninsured today. Who pays the cost of the uninsured? Working families pay the price for our broken health-care system. Families with health insurance pay premiums that are $922 higher each year to cover the health care costs of the uninsured. Taxpayers foot the bill at $21 billion a year when workers are forced to turn to government health care programs. America's health care crisis hurts working families in the wallet. Medical debt is now the most common cause of bankruptcy. Workers who do have health insurance now pay 68 percent more than they did in 2000. More and more employers are choosing not to offer health insurance to their employees at all. Working people shouldn't have to "hustle" between work, family and school, trying to avoid getting sick. Working people shouldn't get pinched in the "hustle" of hospitals and insurance companies, big pharmaceutical giants and doctors out to make a buck. Join us today. Help us stop the "Health Care Hustle." Sources: 1 U.S. Census Bureau; 2 Kaiser Family Foundation. January 2006; 3 Families USA, 2006 | 
