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more remarkable government statistics
In the [[United States of America]], people pay for health care using [[insurance]]. In other countries throughout the world, the government raises taxes in order to provide "[[socialized medicine]]". This has the effect of generally less efficient health care, as well as providing a disincentive to work.
In the [[United States of America]], people pay for health care using [[insurance]]. In other countries throughout the world, the government raises taxes in order to provide "[[socialized medicine]]". This has the effect of generally less efficient health care, as well as providing a disincentive to work.
Here are remarkable government statistics on health care:<ref>http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm</ref>
Here are remarkable government statistics on health care:
* As the largest industry in 2006, health care provided 14 million jobs—13.6 million jobs for wage and salary workers and about 438,000 jobs for the self-employed.
* As the largest industry in 2006, health care provided 14 million jobs—13.6 million jobs for wage and salary workers and about 438,000 jobs for the self-employed.
* 7 of the 20 fastest growing occupations are health care related.
* 7 of the 20 fastest growing occupations are health care related.
* Health care will generate 3 million new wage and salary jobs between 2006 and 2016, more than any other industry.
* Health care will generate 3 million new wage and salary jobs between 2006 and 2016, more than any other industry.<ref>http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm</ref>
* In 2005, health care spending was 4.3 times the amount spent on national defense.<ref>California Health Care Foundation. Health Care Costs 101</ref>
* The annual healthcare costs of obesity could be as high as 147 billion dollars for 2008. The medical costs for an obese person are 42 per cent higher than for a person of normal weight.<ref>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/printerfriendlynews.php?newsid=158948</ref>
*With 19 million sexually transmitted diseases in the United States — almost half occur among the 14-to-25 age group — the cost to the health care system in 2008 was $15 billion a year.<ref>Dr. Kevin Fenton of the CDC</ref>
* The monthly medical cost for people with HIV from diagnosis until death in optimal HIV care averages to be $2,100. The lifetime (now 24.2 years avg.) HIV care cost per persons is now $618,900 per person.<ref>[http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/printerfriendlynews.php?newsid=55870]</ref>
* Federal budget funding for AIDS treatment and care in America in 2009 totaled 24.8 billion. Medicare spending on HIV totaled $4.5 billion in 2008, with four in ten people living with HIV and who were receiving care being covered by Medicaid.<ref>Kaiser Family Foundation (2009, February) ''Medicaid and HIV/AIDS Fact sheet''</ref> The numbers of people living with HIV grows by around 56,000 every year.<ref>Hall, H.I. et al (2008, 6th August) 'Estimation of HIV incidence in the United States' JAMA 300(5)</ref><ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18677024</ref>
==Politics of health care==
==Politics of health care==