Health Care in the US - The Facts

Health Care in the US - The Facts from Jason Summers Blog

http://www.jasonsummers.org/we-need-french-healthcare/

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• 46 million Americans are currently without health insurance;
• 60 million Americans, both insured and uninsured, have inadequate access to primary care due to a shortage of physicians and other health service providers in their community;
• 100 million Americans have no insurance to cover dental needs;
• 116 million adults, nearly two-thirds of all non-seniors, struggled to pay medical bills, went without needed care because of cost, were uninsured for a time, or were underinsured in the last year;
• The United States spends $2.3 trillion each year on health care, 16 percent of its Gross Domestic Product;
• Americans spend $7,129 per person on health care, 50 percent more than other industrialized countries, including those with universal care;
• The U.S. does not get what it pays for. We rank among the lowest in the health outcome rankings of developed countries, and on several major indices rank below some third-world nations;
• The number of health insurance industry bureaucrats has grown at 25 times the growth of physicians in the past 30 years;
• In 2006, the six largest insurance companies made $11 billion in profits even after paying for direct health care costs, administrative costs and marketing costs."

Make Health Care for All a National Priority

Who are they kidding:

No Forms

• No Forms
• No Pre-existing conditions
• No billing
• No Insurance Company telling your Doctor what to do
• One provider to deal with health care costs
• No death squads
  
• Remember no coverage or poor coverage kills
• Profits held in check against overcharging

Remember not all problems with costs are not caused by the insurance industry. The entire Health Care delivery system if fraught with excessive costs.

I had a dentist who bought protective plastic glasses for patients from Home Depot instead of from the medical supplier because the cost was 10% less from Home Depot. The law of supply and demand should never be the rule in matters of life and death or good health otherwise costs would skyrocket - which they have in a "For Profit Health Care System."