Family Budgets and Health Care - Segment with Ron Gaston

This Kaiser Family Foundation documentary, Snapshots from the Kitchen Table: Family Budgets and Health Care, profiles several American families who are struggling to make ends meet. In the spring of 2008, 60 year old Ron Gaston was a shipping and receiving clerk in Wichita, Kansas who earned about $30,000 a year and received his health insurance through his employer. He and his ailing wife were barely making ends meet, in part, because of medical bills. After our interview, Gaston had surgery for what doctors feared was kidney cancer, but the tumor was benign. Still, he incurred $15,000 in medical bills and then in late 2008 he was laid off from a job he had most of his adult life.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• underinsured
• uninsured
• underinsurance
• health care costs
• recession
• health coverage
• family budgets
• access to care
• Kaiser family foundation
• Ron Gaston