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The percentage of people reporting problems with their health insurance increased from 28.5% in 1997 to 33.4% in 2001.
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55.4% of insured people experienced a delay of needed care in 2001.
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33.4% of insured people were denied care due to health plan limitations in 2001.
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52% of people with insurance that had difficulty getting care cited cost as the primary reason (2001).
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The third leading cause of death in the US is due to mistakes using medical technology (2001).
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The administrative cost of health insurance plans in the US is $214 per year per person (2001).
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The administrative costs of health insurance plans in Canada is $58 per year per person (2001).
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The US spends $4178 per person on health care. The average cost of the nine largest industrialized democracies after the US is $1905 per person (2001).
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The World Health Organization survey ranks US health care as 37th in performance (2001).
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43 million Americans are without health insurance
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75% of them live in a household where at least one adult is fully employed 51% of total health care expenditures come from public funds (2001).
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Since 1998. 2.2 million elderly have been disenrolled from Medicare+Choice Plans. Those that remain are experiencing increasing premiums, decreasing benefits, or both.
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Overall health care costs rose 7.2% in 2000.
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HMO premiums increased 15.3% in 2002. Analysts are predicting 20% in 2003.
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*Miscellaneous sources. Call HPN for information. |
