- Per-capita US health care expenditures in 2002: $5,267 ("Health Care Politics and Policy in America", Patel & Rushefsky, 2006)
- Percentage by which it is higher than OECD average: 140%
- Per-capita expenditures in Germany, France, Canada, and Great Britain: $2,817, $2,736, $2,931, and $2,160.
- Percentage of health care costs that are administrative: 31%. (http://www.pnhp.org/publications/nejmadmin.pdf)
- The same in Canada: 16.7%
- Percentage of the total US health care costs last year that went to pay salary of UnitedHealth CEO: 0.14% (http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/21/elizabeth-edwards-1-of-every-700-went-to-pay-salary-of-unitedhealth-ceo/)
- US health care ranking in the world, according to WHO, in 2000: 37 (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html)
- French health care ranking: 1
- Number of developed countries ranked lower than US: 0
- US population longevity ranking in the world: 33 (tied with Cuba, http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-05-18-un-life-expectancy_N.htm)
- US rank in infant mortality: 29 (tied with Slovakia and Poland, http://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20081015/infant-mortality-us-ranks-29th)
- Number of bankruptcies in US that are medical: 50% (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05222009/transcript4.html)
- The share of those where people had health insurance: 3/4
Sunday, May 24, 2009
US health care by the numbers
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With various health care reform bills floating around both the House and the Senate, President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to get the votes that the bill needs, which is good news for the public option. President Obama continues to rally behind health care reform. I am really concerned that the fiasco of this reform may make Obama a one-term president.
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