Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1965)

$1.2 Trillion Wasted Each Year
In a study from PricewaterhouseCooper's Health Research Institute, they discoverd more than $1.2 trillion spent on health care each year is a waste of money. Reducing these wasted costs would close the current annual federal deficit. This money could remain in YOUR pocket or provide additional profits to your small business. Yet "angry" citizens are blocking attempts to have an open discussion about health care reform!
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Our Sick System: Why We Need A Public Option
Between 1999 and 2008, average job-based family health insurance premiums more than doubled, growing from $5,791 to $12,680 (an increase of 119 percent). NOTE: If your employer foots the bill (or part of this increased cost), they cannot raise your salary.

The top five earning insurance companies averaged profits of $1.56 billion in 2008 and reported spending an average of "more than 18 percent of their revenues on marketing, administration, and profits." That year, CEO compensation for these companies ranged from $3 million to $24 million.
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Health Care Fact Check

PBS pointed out that the health and insurance industries are spending more than a 1,400,000 dollars a day, just to destroy the "public option" - the truly non-profit, wieldy, round-up and not round-down, government, from helping you pay your medical bills with about a billionth of the recklessness with which it is still paying Halliburton and its spin-offs to kill your kids.
Keith Olbermann, Legislators for Sale - August 3, 2009

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy
Born in 1932, the legislation he helped pass made life better for children, the poor, African-Americans, immigrants and workers. This is a tremendous loss for our nation and its citizens.
We honor and salute you!
Letter to Obama about National Health Care

The Need for HealthCare Reform Continues
With the loss of Senator Kennedy, we must revive our efforts to bring health care reform to this nation. The last time a president tried to overhaul U.S. health care, Americans were spending $912 billion on the system and 40 million were uninsured. Today they’re spending $2.5 trillion and almost 50 million lack coverage.

Vets Loving Socialized Medicine Show Govt Offers Savings
Rick Tanner is one American who loves his government-run health care. After serving in Vietnam and spending three decades in the U.S. Navy, Tanner retired in 1991 with a bad knee and high blood pressure. He enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration and now benefits from comprehensive treatment with few co-payments and an electronic records system more advanced than almost anywhere at private hospitals. "The care is superb," said Tanner, 66, a San Diego resident who visits the veterans medical center in La Jolla, California, and a clinic in nearby Mission Valley. The record-keeping, he said, is "state of the art." Bloomberg - October 2, 2009

Health-insurance premiums for families have risen 119 percent since 1999, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Menlo Park, California-based policy-research firm. Inflation has risen 28.5 percent over that period, according to the Labor Department.

Premium costs are projected to rise another 9 percent next year, an increase that 42 percent of employers plan to pass on to their workers, according to a report last month by PricewaterhouseCoopers. That’s likely to further squeeze millions of Americans who find themselves in high-deductible insurance plans as wages stagnate because of the recession ...
Bloomberg - July 28, 2009

Rate of growth in U.S. health care costs has outpaced the growth rate in gross domestic product (GDP) for many years. In 1940 the share of GDP accounted for by health care spending was just 4.5 percent. By 1990 it had reached 12.2 percent, and 16 percent in 2005, when health care spending totaled nearly $2 trillion, or $6,697 per person, far more than any other nation. This year health care spending is on track to equal 18 percent of GDP.
Non-profit Rand Corporation Study

Health care costs are expected to grow 71 percent over the next decade, which will in turn drive premium increases for health insurance.

This analysis shows that without health reform, average family premiums will grow to more than $22,000 by 2019, up from $13,100 today. In some states with higher-than-average premiums, family premiums will exceed $25,000 in 10 years.
Progressive Center for American Progress Study

Because they lack the bargaining power that large businesses have and face higher administrative costs per person, small businesses pay up to 18 percent more for the very same health insurance plans - costs that eat into their profits and get passed on to their employees.

As a result, small businesses are much less likely to offer health insurance. Those that do tend to have less generous plans. In a recent survey, one third of small businesses reported cutting benefits. Many have dropped coverage altogether. And many have shed jobs or shut their doors entirely.

This is unsustainable, it's unacceptable, and it's going to change when I sign health insurance reform into law.
Barack Obama (7.25.09)