75% of Health Care Costs – Chronic Illness

Chronic Illness treatment accounts for 75% of all health care spending in the US, according to industry analysts and are the ones most affected by the current recession. People who suffer without proper treatment risk either death or worsening conditions as they opt to do out-patient treatments due to high costs associated with hospital care. Health care has suffered greatly during the past years and most of those who are being laid-off their current jobs will be joining the already millions of uninsured individuals. The SCHIP, if it indeed gets implemented after passing would at least start with children, getting them the much needed care they have not been entitled to in the past.
The only problem is that with more and more Americans having to shell out more cash for health care, having to pay for the care of children especially those who are not full US citizens becomes a pressing issue. Children of illegals are to be covered by the propose move to boost children’s health care assuming they are registered with the proper authorities. Having to pay for that care is a totally different matter when millions of US children go without health insurance why should they?