source:agency for healthcare research and quality meps
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The Health and Profitable to the “Market,” the Sick and Poor to the Taxpayer. 73%. Government Programs. Percent of health Care Costs. Private Insurers. 13%. 6%. 4%. 0% 0% 0%. 1% 1% 2%. Source:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality MEPS. Unnecessary Procedures. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Physicians Administrators
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and NCHS
Drug Companies’ Cost Drug Companies’ Cost StructureStructure
““Would you prefer the current system or Universal Health Would you prefer the current system or Universal Health Insurance…like Medicare…run by Government…financed by Insurance…like Medicare…run by Government…financed by
Taxpayers”Taxpayers”
NHI, 62%
Current, 32%
Don't Know, 6%
Source: Washington Post/ABC News Poll, 10/20/03
Universal HealthInsurance
Single-Payer: “Politically Feasible?”Single-Payer: “Politically Feasible?”
Abolition of Human Abolition of Human SlaverySlavery (1860s)(1860s)
Women’s Suffrage Women’s Suffrage MovementMovement(1840-1920)(1840-1920)
Civil Rights ActCivil Rights Act(1964)(1964)
Other “Politically Infeasible” Movements