10 (Un)Healthy Numbers

  • 46,000,000 - Number of Americans without health insurance.
  • 8,300,000 - Number of children in the U.S. without health insurance.
  • 73.8% - Amount that U.S. health insurance premiums have increased since the year 2000.
  • 5 - Consecutive years that the percentage of Americans with job-based health insurance has declined.
  • 0.46% - Percent of U.S. health care costs related to malpractice claims.
  • 31% - Percent of U.S. health care expenditures that go towards administative costs.
  • 15% - Percent of European health care expenditures that go towards administrative costs.
  • $6,100 - Amount the U.S. spends per person on health care.
  • $2,550 - Average per person spent on health care by the 30 OECD countries.
  • 22nd - Rank of U.S. life expectancy among the 30 OECD countries.

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