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Statistics and Poll Results - United States

42% of Americans under age 65 are either uninsured or under-insured: see the under-insured web page. Over 130 million Americans are in that situation; that number is zero in all other industrialized countries.
95% of Americans feel that it is a very serious (70%) or somewhat serious (25%) problem for the United States that many Americans do not have health insurance.

Decisions of the U.S. Congress that are against the U.S. having health care for all

The world view clearly shows that the U.S. Congress has acted time and time again against what the other industrialized countries have done regarding the implementation of non-profit financing of health care.
The wrong direction was taken by the U.S. Congress in 2003 that has been making things worse for Americans regarding health care. That wrong direction will take an automatic additional step in 2010 if citizens do not do necessary communications.

More Statistics

U.S. is 37th in the World in Health System Performance Press release
- Data comparing the 191 countries in the World Health Organization
  - See “Annex Table 10” in either a PDF file or a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file
- Return to Cost Per Person
U.S. is 19th in a list of 19 countries in minimizing deaths due to preventable diseases
- Announced by the Commonwealth Fund , Reuters and javno, of which the latter two list the 19 countries
- E. Nolte and C. M. McKee, Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis, Health Affairs, January/February 2008, 27(1):58–71