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Voter's Survival Kit: Health Care, Get the Facts


  • Government, private insurance costs increasing
  • Health care spending rising
  • Private vs. public expenditures on health care
  • Where health dollars go
  • Where Medicare dollars go
  • Percentage of Americans without health insurance
  • Lack of health insurance coverage, by income
  • Lack of health insurance coverage, by age
  • Lack of health insurance coverage, by race
  • State-by-state health insurance coverage rates
  • Long-term care needs
  • Growing number of Medicare beneficiaries
  • Medicare costs per person
  • Medicare spending: a larger part of the federal budget
  • Medicare spending vs. private health insurance spending
  • Medicare revenue sources
  • Cost of Medicare prescription drug program
  • Medicare beneficiary out-of-pocket spending