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Healthcare Stats You Can Use

BY FRANK HILL
Reprinted from Telemachus.com

  1. 1% of the US population, about 3.1 million people, use 35% of all healthcare expenditures each year. The specific people in this number change each year due to death or recovery.
  2. 5% of the US population, about 15.5 million people, use 60% of all healthcare expenditures each year. The specific people in this number change each year due to death or recovery.
  3. Many, if not a majority of these people are in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
  4. Healthcare now consumes 18% of GNP. It is expected to consume 20% of GDP by 2021.
  5. Chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and strokes account for most of our expenditures.
  6. Anywhere from 35%-50% of all healthcare expenditures can be attributable to these four conditions. Continue reading →

Slash Federal Spending? Some Tough Choices

 

BY RICH GALEN

From Nairobi, Kenya

Reprinted from Mullings.com

I have been in Kenya since Saturday night on a trip sponsored by the ONE Campaign. I am with seven other political pros – pollsters, advisors, message masters, and me. Later today we move on to Tanzania for about three days before heading home.

We are not spending much time on photo safaris in Massai Mara National Park. We have been to a research center run by the U.S. Army and followed young Kenyans who went to a rural village to do in-home HIV testing.

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