Healthcare costs.(Perspective)(Brief Article)

An interesting study on the rise of healthcare costs and the uninsured made headlines last week.

Kenneth Thorpe, an economist at Emory University in Atlanta, wrote the report for the nonpartisan consumer advocacy group Families USA.

According to the data, the healthcare costs of the uninsured are being covered by those with insurance. This finding won't come as a surprise to most of us, but Thorpe's report attempts to quantify just how much this tab is per family. He asserts that it will take $922 this year, on ave