Finance

Whether you prefer your news on FOX or NPR, there is no denying that the air is thickening around the subject of health care reform in this country. Arguments favoring this tinker or that tamper satisfy some and enrage others. Regardless of what approach people favor, there is one unifying acknowledgement: It is that some meaningful reform must soon be in place before the current system bankrupts our nation.

Flourishing numbers of patients that cannot pay their medical bills due to the economic plunge will be the greatest challenge to hospitals going forward, according to more than half (54%) of those answering a survey conducted this month by MedAssist.