The Growing Insurance Crisis in America: Uninsurable, Unaffordable, Unacceptable

Dr. Gambert is Chairman, Department of Medicine, and Physician-in-Chief, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Although there are currently between 46 and 48 million persons in the United States without health insurance, and there is talk among the Presidential hopefuls of finding some solution to this growing crisis, an equally important crisis is the growing number of “uninsurable” Americans—even if one is willing to fund his/her own health insurance policy. The reality is that individuals w...