From Newshoggers
►Americans who are losing their health insurance, due to lost jobs in the economic downturn: 14,000 (per day)
►Average amount families with insurance paid in premiums to cover the cost-shift from the uninsured: $1100 (2009)
►Americans who die this year because they are uninsured, and have untreated illness: 22,000
►Health care spending wasted on paperwork to manage individual market instead of the more efficient group market: $3 billion (2009)
►Americans who were turned away or charged more for health insurance, over the last 3 years largely due to due discrimination to pre-existing conditions: 12.6 million (total, last three years)
►Americans who were imposed with medical debt or who had difficulty paying medical bills: 3 million new (over past year)
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