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At Reuters this week, a new study finds that affordable health care is denied to those who need it most: the uninsured.

It's a terrible story that illustrates the many injustices to be found in a broken medical care system.

U.S. hospitals are charging uninsured patients about two-and-a-half times more than those with health insurance, a mark-up that has been steadily rising despite pressure to level prices.

Right now hospitals only collect about 10% of what they charge to uninsured patients. But the costs to those patients appear as medical debt, and can lead to bankruptcy.

Clearly providing affordable health care to everyone would be, without debate, the fastest way to minimize these costs both to hospitals and patients alike.

But as it says in the article, "the real problem of course, is that we live in a country where we don't guarantee coverage for everybody," and that's a topic that is still under debate.