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The U.S. spent $5,267 per capita on health care in 2002—53% more than any other country (Commonwealth Fund). Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in the United States have been rising five times faster on average than workers' earnings since 2000 (Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust). 45.8 million Americans (about 15% of the total population) have no health insurance coverage (Wikipedia). Prices for brand-name prescription drugs are 35 to 55 percent lower in other industrialized countries than in the United States (New England Journal of Medicine).
Typical health care in the United States is significantly worse than most other industrialized countries (The Commonwealth Fund). Health care recipients typically receive only 54.9% of recommended care (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).
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I don't have any facts. I believe that we have a very poor health care system. Unless you are wealthy it is hard to get health care. Health care is driven by money and economics and therefore the questions asked are how can you pay for it? not What do you need? The obvious solution is to take it out of the private enterprise field and into the government financed field and provide complete and adequate health care for all. This could be done if we stopped the wars and concentrated on fixing our domestic problems.