...enrollment plans put together insure not "several million" but less than 750,000 different people. 3. Only one in four older people holds adequate hospital...of $20. Commercial insurance coverage of hospital "extras" — drugs, laboratory fees, X-rays, etc. — is equally poor. This is significant because...

...proportion, however, is the question of adequacy of the protection. According to some authorities, only one in four older people holds adequate hospital...established by the American Hospital Association. Actual Potential income Unit income Excluding home equity Including home equity Married couples -....

...hospital $233 One or both in hospital 1,220 For unmarried : Not in hospital 131 In hospital 1, 038 Only one in four older people holds adequate hospital insurance under the American Hospital Association definition of adequacy. Half (52%) of the older population has health...