Not enough and not in the right places!
or a more realistic answer:
We spend incredible amounts on social programs. These programs make up over half of all federal spending. More then the and debt together. In this era of entitlements people are starting to believe they are owed "free" health care. By free they are saying that others should pay for their care because they understand the cost is high and they don't wish to alter their life for that payment. A very narcissistic viewpoint in many's opinion.
Let's look at where that money (which some claim is not enough) goes and how much it is.
Keeping it simple the cost of keeping seniors well in 2007 cost the United States $27,289.00 per person or roughly $953.2 BILLION! (That is 34.9% of the TOTAL federal budget). This is the sad state of our current public option which almost 44% of America is already on this public option. If we add the remaining 56% were to be added onto the public sector insurance what would the portion rise to in terms of total budget?
When you ad these costs into the ever rising number of people being driven out of the private health care insurance through their poor money management and the spiraling costs for insurance because of trial lawyers becoming millionaires at the health industries expense. You can clearly see why the government has no business here. It views this system as a endless cash cow. Much of our Senate and Congress are licensed lawyers. They are the problem. Putting them in charge of the issue is wildly foolish. Fortunately for them, most lawyers are great at class envy and have twisted the issue into a false us against them campaign.
The idea that we should take 1/6th of the American economy away from the private sector violates so many of the rules and freedoms that made us Americans it is sad. When Russia's Pravda magazine is laughing at us and how the Capitalist society killed itself over class envy it makes me feel bad. The children, whose future we have stolen, will look back at those of us that voted for the theft of America and not have many good things to say.
In 2006, US health care spending was $7,026. This expenditure was an increase of 6.7 percent from the prior year for a price tag of $2.1 trillion dollars.
2.6 trillion.
In 2006‑07 the Federal Government spent $48 billion on health and aged care.
Each government handles health care and the costs differently. It would help to know which government and health care programs that you are referencing.
Neither, spend more money on real health care for people. People are more important than any of those explorations.
The poor have a harder time staying healthy because they have limited access to modern medicine. The other factor is that they have less money to spend on health care.
Has any branch of government voted on health care reform?
If you mean, "why," one possible reason is that health insurance reform required health insurance companies to spend the money they receive in premiums on, um, actual health care and not excessive overhead such as inflated executive compensation. .
Universal health care is when health care is provided by the Federal Government. Everyone is covered, but not necissarily with a good plan.
Under health reform, insurers have to spend a certain percentage of their revenues (your premiums) on medical care and on improving quality of care. If they spent less than the target percentage, they have to refund money to you. That is why you received a check.
The government is the largest health care provider in the country so treating diabetes directly costs the government a lot of money. Also, diabetes is a major cause of lost productivity so it costs the government money indirectly through lost tax revenue and hurts the economy in general.
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