...Health expenditures consume about 16 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. Translated to an individual family, medical insurance claims 20 percent of median income. That's compared with 8 percent in 1987, according to the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington...

``If we do not make health insurance more affordable, a majority of working Americans will be uninsured by 2020,'' it says in its ``The Next Social Contract'' report... LINK

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