THE TOP TEN reasons US Healthcare reform is essential.
Facts regarding the (pre-reform) US healthcare system. If you read this and remain opposed to healthcare reform then you are either ignorant, devoid of compassion or have been blinded by partisan politics.
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The US is the only industrialized nation not to have Universal Health Care

 
 
 
 

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Three “third-world” countries who are currently implementing Universal Health Care are India, South Africa and Mexico.

 
 
 
 

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Approx 45.7 million US residents have no health insurance. That’s the entire population of Texas, Florida and Oklahoma combined.

 
 
 
 

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The US DOES provide Universal Health Care in three "states": they are Massachusetts, Iraq and Afghanistan.

 
 
 
 

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The World Health Organization ranks the US health care system as the worlds HIGHEST in cost per person

 
 
 
 

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The World Health Organization ranks the US health care system as the worlds 2ND MOST EXPENSIVE in terms of proportion of income spent on health care per person (East Timor, population 1.1 million, recovering from a war of independence is number 1)

 
 
 
 

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The World Health Organization ranks the US health care system as the 37th in overall performance

 
 
 
 

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The World Health Organization ranks the US as 72nd in overall level of health

 
 
 
 

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A 2009 Harvard study found there were 44,800 excess deaths annually in the United States due to Americans lacking health insurance

 
 
 
 

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Over 62% of US personal bankruptcies are attributed, at least in part, to health care costs

 
 
 
 



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