title: Downsizing health coverage.
abstract: The crushing cost of insurance is fundamentally changing U.S. health care. Companies shift costs to employees, but low-wage workers often can't absorb them. Hospitals struggle to provide equitable care to all in the face of a payment system that seems to encourage rationing by income and insurance status. Have we reached the tipping point?
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Larkin
mesh_terms: D017047:Cost Sharing; D017049:Employer Health Costs / Q000639:trends*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D007221:Industry / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States