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Read this and you will quickly see why we need health care reform
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.s…
In 2008, total national health expenditures were expected to rise 6.9 percent -- two times the rate of inflation.1 Total spending was $2.4 TRILLION in 2007, or $7900 per person1. Total health care spending represented 17 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
U.S. health care spending is expected to increase at similar levels for the next decade reaching $4.3 TRILLION in 2017, or 20 percent of GDP.
Health care spending is 4.3 times the amount spent on national defense.
Although nearly 46 million Americans are uninsured, the United States spends more on health care than other industrialized nations, and those countries provide health insurance to all their citizens.
Health care spending accounted for 10.9 percent of the GDP in Switzerland, 10.7 percent in Germany, 9.7 percent in Canada and 9.5 percent in France, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
- We need preventative health reform. Way too many fat asses roaming the USA because diets and lifestyle suck wind.********
- ... also, illegal residents are taxing the hell out of the system in California.********
- We need preventative health reform. Way too many fat asses roaming the USA because diets and lifestyle suck wind.