Don't just take our word for it. Here are a few links that have some recent articles written about uninsured people getting service from the hospitals and doctors.

Most individual health policies lack pregnancy coverage

By Kristen Gerencher, CBS.MarketWatch.com

Many individual policies either don't cover deliveries or offer coverage in the form of a rider, which costs extra and may require women to wait -- sometimes for several years -- before they qualify to have a covered pregnancy

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Risks and rewards of cheap childbirth

By Jackie Cohen, CBS Marketwatch

Smaller businesses trying to lower their premiums tend to cut corners on maternity coverage, requiring employees to make greater contributions. Self-employed people and others who buy insurance for themselves are even more likely to wind up without maternity coverage, given the premiums involved

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Hospitals sock uninsured with much bigger bills

By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY

Ed and Dianna Jellison let their business' health insurance lapse while they shopped for a better price. But then Ed fell ill, spending 17 days in a Florida hospital as a viral infection ravaged his body.

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Why Hospitals Overcharge the Uninsured

By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet - July 23, 2003

Rose Shaffer is a homecare nurse and grandmother of seven who lives on Chicago's south side. Though she spends all day caring for the health of others, her job doesn't provide her with health insurance.

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Hospitals consider price cuts for uninsured
Government help is needed for change, industry says

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The hospital industry said Wednesday it will consider cutting the price of care for the uninsured in the face of growing complaints that hospitals charge such patients too much.

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