ABC News, Science Daily and the National Coalition on Health Care

• The U.S. has the world’s most expensive healthcare system, yet one-sixth of Americans are uninsured. National surveys reveal that the primary reason is the high cost of coverage.
• Approximately one-third (31%) of adults and a little more than one-half (54%) of children do not have a primary care doctor.
• Federal spending on healthcare in 2005 alone totaled $600 billion, a massive one-quarter of the federal budget.
• Someone files for bankruptcy every 30 seconds because of health concerns. And every year, 1.5 million families lose their homes to foreclosure due to unaffordable medical costs.
• The U.S. spends six times more per capita on the administration of the health insurance system than Western European nations, who insure all of their citizens.
• The total medical expenditures for the uninsured of nearly $124 billion in 2004 was more than the combined expenditures of the Iraq war and “war on terror” programs.
• The percentage of adults who receive recommended preventative care and screening tests according to guidelines for their age and sex is only 49%.
• Each year, the number of Americans who die from medical errors is close to 100,000—more than double the annual number of deaths from car crashes.
  
  http://www.realtruth.org/articles/090203-005-health.html