Graphically illustrating the cost/benefit problems with our healthcare system. Life expectancy on the y-axis, cost on the x-axis. Notice the position of the USA.
MANY DOCTORS BUT FAR TOO FEW PRACTICE PRIMARY CARE
Health Care Graphically
Taken from UC Santa Cruz's Atlas of Inequality, the US ranks just ahead of Cuba in life expectancy while spending vastly more than any other country. Only large-scale systemic reforms can improve this situation.
The Gap Continues to Widen between Specialists and Primary Care Docs
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WHO'S THE OUTLIER HERE? ESPECIALLY WHEN VIEWED IN LIGHT OF MORTALITY STATISTICS ABOVE
General revenue transfers (taxes) are rising faster than any other source of income for Medicare. They pay for physicians' services and drug expenses.
Texas has the highest percentage of Medicaid-eligible people not enrolled in the program.
Taken from the Washington Post.
Medicare expenditure per beneficiary--2008
Medicare expenditures range from as low as $6200 in yellow areas to as high as $15,580 in dark red areas.
Taken from The New England Journal of Medicine.
Taken from The New England Journal of Medicine.
We are on the wrong side of the slope
Follow the pink line. It represents Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Already it is paying out more than it brings in, and it will be exhausted in 2024.
See our page: Federal Realities for more details.
See our page: Federal Realities for more details.
Employee's share of premium of employer sponsored insurance per individual. Does not include copays or deductibles.
Taken from Kaiser Family Foundation
