Jun 17 2009
Health Care Crisis
The health care crisis is crippling the United States. We need affordable health care and universal access to single-payer health care.
| 1/3 | The portion of the population that is uninsured or underinsured in the United States. |
| 34,000 | The number of people that would be insured by the salary of the CEO of United Health Group who makes $122.7 million a year. |
| 37th | Rank of the United States among industrialized countries in health care system performance according to a report by WHO, the World Health Organization. The U.S. is ranked 54th in fairness while Cuba is ranked 23rd in that category. According to the report, the U.S. has a higher mortality rate than Cypress and Slovenia. |
| 101,000 | People have died unnecessarily in the United States every year for the past five years due to lack of health insurance. |
Go to Change Crew 07 to see what we are doing about it in Raleigh, North Carolina and how you can help.
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