Thursday, September 17, 2009

Information Station: Health care statistics...

Recent news items about health care:

A recent study noted that 45,000 Americans die per year because they don't have health care insurance for better medical attention.

The uninsured had a 40 percent higher risk of death.

The average cost of health care for an American family annually is more than $13,000.

Insurance premiums have gone up 131 percent in 10 years.

About 14 million young people are uninsured. They make up the largest group of uninsured Americans. About half of them earn less than $16,000 per year.

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