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Update #1: Got Healthcare Yet?
1. Fact: In 2009 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 46 million Americans did not have health insurance. That number was by then actually over 52 million and was reduced to 22 million with the passage of health care reform. But it has grown since then to 27 million and continues to grow. If the reform measures are repealed (as Republicans want) it will be back in the 55 to 60 million range.
2. Fact: A 2009 Harvard University and Ohio University study concluded that 45,000 Americans die every year for lack of health care. That number is 15 times (every year) the number killed in 9/11.
3. Fact: The number one cause of foreclosure in America in health care debt. In America if you want to live and be treated for a serious condition, you have to fork over your house or die.
4. Fact: 62% of all bankruptcies in America are due to medical debt.
5. Fact: 1% of Americans own more than half of America’s wealth. Obama refused to consider a single payer healthcare system that would decimate the health insurance industry because it represents (along with all the medical debt credit industry) one-sixth of our economy. But with 1% owning half the wealth, that one-sixth is really only very small percent of the population.
6. Fact: A single payer system (Medicare for all) is the only way to fix the U.S. health care problem. As long as there is a for-profit health insurance industry in control of American’s health, only the very rich will be covered, and our medical debt and quality of health will continue to devolved.
7. Fact: America ranks 37th in health care worldwide (based on infant mortality and longevity) – World Health Organization study.
8. Fact: America ranks 52nd in heath care fairness – World Health Organization study. Cuba has better health care than the U.S. in terms of fairness.
9. Fact: 39 other countries have universal healthcare coverage for all citizens. Many, even for those who aren’t citizens, but just visiting. Not so in America.
10. Fact: America has the greatest health care technology, but only the rich can pay for it.
11. Fact: Got Healthcare? Tough. This is America. Die.
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