Top 10 Hospitals in America

One of the most important functions of health insurance is to provide coverage if you require an extended hospital stay. While emergency rooms are legally mandated to take every patient regardless of insurance status, this is at great cost to the hospital and taxpayers, especially when the ER is clogged with people who are out of options and use it in lieu of a primary care physician. Hopefully, you are insured. If any of these hospitals (ranked by U.S. News and World Report) are included in your coverage, you will most likely be well taken care of:

1. Johns Hopkins
2. Mayo Clinic
3. UCLA Medical Center
4. Cleveland Clinic
5. Massachusetts General
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital
7. University of California: San Francisco Medical Center
8. University of Pennsylvania Hospital
9. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University
10. Brigham and Women’s Hospital

There are affordable plans available for catastrophic health insurance, which mainly cover hospital visits and other serious emergencies. It’s the bare minimum of health insurance anyone should have; it offers less coverage than full insurance, but is also less expensive. Medical bills can skyrocket before you know it, and could even lead to bankruptcy if you aren’t sufficiently covered.

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