driveby
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Obesity is the single largest detriment to health, and the most preventable form of poor health.Who is raking off the money?
We spent 17.6% of our GDP on health care last year. And failed to cover nearly 15% of our population. With results that are third world.
Japan spent 8% of their GDP, and covered everyone of their citizens.
In the US, hundreds of thousands with insurance still went bankrupt because of medical bills. Nobody in Japan, Germany, Canada, et cet went bankrupt because of medical bills.
So we are spending over twice as much per citizen for our health care system, not covering all of our citizens, and getting inferior results.
That seems to say that at least a trillion has been skimmed from the system. How else to account for the fact that we are paying twice as much and getting a product inferior even to the system in Costa Rica.
NCHC | Facts About Healthcare - Health Insurance Costs
National health spending is expected to reach $2.5 trillion in 2009, accounting for 17.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). By 2018, national health care expenditures are expected to reach $4.4 trillionmore than double 2007 spending.1
Obesity rate in the US 30.6%
Obesity rate in Japan 3.2%
Here are the facts, Obesity statistics - countries compared - NationMaster
I'd say we are doing pretty good if we only spend twice as much for almost ten times the number of fat-asses bleeding the medical system dry.
And how does that affect the fact that we are not covering a significant portion of our population?
Most of them aren't citizens of this country, start there clown .....