From Citizen K.

Health Care Town Hall Meeting

Even if you don't read the whole article, you need to read these facts...

• 47,000,000 Americans are uninsured, including
• 4,ooo,ooo since the onset of the recession
• 10,000 working families a day lose insurance
• annually, we spend $2.2 trillion (emphasis mine) on health care
• 60% of all U. S. bankruptcies are due at least in part to unpaid medical bills
• 80% of the uninsured work
• the rest of the industrialized world spends $2800 per person annually on health insurance or coverage compared to $6500 in the U.S.
• U.S. life expectancy is below that of Bosnia and Jordan
• as a per cent of the economy, health care costs have risen from 8% in 1980 to 16% today
• without reform, trends indicate that health care costs will be 35% of the economy by 2040

Still, read the article. Then write to those who claim to represent you.