9 FACTS You wish you NEVER knew about our health care

1.Of the 19 "industrialized" nations the U.S. spends the most on health care but ranks dead last in the quality of its healthcare.
(http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1747974920080717?sp=true)

2. Think having a baby in the U.S. is a good idea? We have 7 infant deaths out of 1000 compared to 2.8 in Japan and 3.1 in Sweden and it's lower in several other countries. Yet again, we spend more on health care proportionate to our population than any of these countries.

3. Medical bills drive more than 60% of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/

4. Each year, roughly 100,000 americans die of infections picked up IN hospitals. That's more than double the number of people killed in car crashes, five times the number killed in homicides, 20 times the total number of our armed forces killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

5. As a nation, we spend 18% of our GDP (Gross Domestic Product) on health care.

6. In 1966, Medicare and Medicaid made up 1 percent of total government spending; now that figure is 20 percent, and quickly rising

7. The federal government spends eight times as much on health care as it does on education, 12 times what it spends on food aid to children and families, 30 times what it spends on law enforcement, 78 times what it spends on land management and conservation, 87 times the spending on water supply, and 830 times the spending on energy conservation.

8.Household expenditures on health care already exceed those on housing. And health care's share is growing.

9.For every two doctors in the U.S., there is now one health-insurance employee-more than 470,000 in total. In 2006, it cost almost $500 per
person just to administer health insurance.

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