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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (280869)	7/27/2002 12:54:00 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I'd love to find an honest breakdown of medical costs in this country. Things like this businessweek.com state that $400 BILLION in fed & state expenditures on medical care, 13.4% of GDP total or $1.3 TRILLION total. So, with 6 million healthcare workers, that's an AVERAGE of $216,000 PER PERSON annually. And that includes nurses, clerks, janitors along with specialist surgeons etc. In a quick search I still haven't found a simple breakdown showing: 1) PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY COSTS 2) CAREGIVER COSTS (DOCS, NURSES) 3) INSURANCE COSTS 4) LEGAL COSTS I suspect no lobbyist wants these numbers clearly stated. Because - there is NO LOBBYIST FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE that are being screwed.