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And, as more people lose their that hidden cost is on the The organization defines the hidden healtbh tax as the undisclosed insurance premiunm surcharge paidby America’s businessez and insured families when they purchase health insurance. That surcharged subsidizes the uncompensated health care costs of the according tothe organization, which is pushing for healthcare During 2007 and 2008, one-third of non-elderly Americansd – 86.7 million peoples – went without health insurance for some periodr of time, according to Families USA.
46 million uninsured Americans turn to emergenc y rooms when they needmedical care, and the cost of that care is paid for by every American with insurance,” said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairmanb of the Senate Financee Committee, in a news release. Families USA contractecd with actuarial firm to calculate the costs of unpaidhealth care. The report found uninsured peopl e are less likely to get the care they need when theyneed it, and they are more likel to delay seeking care as long as When they do receivse care, it is paid for in severalo ways: More than one-thirdr (37 percent) of that care is paid by the uninsuredx themselves out of their own Third-party sources, such as government programs and charities, paid for an additionalp 26 percent of that care.
The remainingt amount, about $42.7 billion in is considered uncompensated care. Those costas are shifted onto the health care bills of insured ultimately resulting in the hidden healtn tax throughhigher premiums.