Skyrocketing Costs

Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Healthcare is getting more expensive by the minute.
  • Dollars the average American spent in 2002 on medical expenditures: 5,440 [4]
  • Increase in dollars from the previous year: 419 [4]
  • Number of American families for whom health care consumes more than ¼ of their spending: 14,300,000 [4]
  • Percent of US economic growth absorbed by healthcare costs: 24.1 [3]
  • Percent increase of health care spending in US between 1980 and 2002: 410 [1]
  • Percent increase in the average annual family premium between 2002 and 2004: 59 [2]
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