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6 Have Kids or Grandkids Under 10? By the time they reach the age of 25…
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What Needs To Change? Unlimited Access: Must be available when needed Universal: Must cover everyone (no exceptions) Highest quality of care for everyone Fully Comprehensive: must cover all health care, including Rx, dental, vision, hearing, mental health, long term, medical equipment, PT, & chiropractic Unlimited choice of doctors & hospitals Affordability: Must cost much less than private health insurance costs now
How Much Does It Cost Us Today? :
8 How Much Does It Cost Us Today? Annually, the US Health
Care System Consumes * Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice: The Dartmouth Atlas $2.4 trillion
or $7,900per capita
US: Greatest Health Care in the World? :
10 US: Greatest Health Care in the World? 29th in world in infant mortality
Longevity way below single payer countries
Cancer survival worse than Europe, Canada
100,000 preventable hospital deaths
22,000 die annually due to lack of coverage
In fact...... Source: WHO World Health Handbook
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The US Health Care System is in Critical Condition!
Maternal Mortality: :
Maternal Mortality: Source: UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2008 More American women die giving birth than in other industrialized countries Deaths per 100,000
Live births, 2005