Transcript PNHP 2012 short slideset

The Health and Profitable to the “Market,” the
Sick and Poor to the Taxpayer
80
Government
Programs
70
60
Percent
of
health
Care
Costs
73%
50
40
30
Private Insurers
20
10
0%
0%
0%
1% 1%
2%
4%
6%
13%
0
10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10%
Source:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
MEPS
Unnecessary Procedures
Growth of Physicians and Administrators
1970-2005
3000%
2500%
2000%
1500%
1000%
500%
0%
1970
1975
1980
1985
Physicians
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and NCHS
1990
1995
Administrators
2000
Drug Companies’ Cost Structure
“Would you prefer the current system or Universal Health
Insurance…like Medicare…run by Government…financed by
Taxpayers”
Don't
Know, 6%
Current,
32%
Universal
Health
Insurance
NHI, 62%
Source: Washington Post/ABC News Poll, 10/20/03
Single-Payer: “Politically Feasible?”
Other “Politically Infeasible” Movements
Abolition of Human
Slavery
(1860s)
Women’s Suffrage
Movement
(1840-1920)
Civil Rights Act
(1964)