Health care by the numbers

$2.2 trillion: How much was spent on health care in the U.S. in 2007 ($7,421 per person.)

$4.27 trillion: How much the U.S. is projected to spend on health care in 2017.

$56 billion: The total amount of uncompensated care provided for the uninsured in 2008. (60 percent provided by hospitals.)

86.7 million: The number of people in the U.S. who lived without health insurance for part or all of 2007-08.

1.5 million: How many U.S. families lose their homes to foreclosure per year because of medical bills they can't afford.

14,000: The number of people in the U.S. estimated to be losing their health coverage every day due to recent turmoil in the job market.

$12,680: The average cost of family health coverage through employer-based plans in 2008.

$1,525: The cost of health care built into the price of every General Motors car.

120 percent: How much the employee's share of health coverage through company plans has risen since 2000. (Workers' average out-of-pocket medical costs have risen 115 percent since 2000.)

45: The number of U.S. states in which insurance companies are allowed to spend less than 75 cents of every dollar paid in premiums on their customers' medical care.

25 percent: How many more adults without health insurance are likely to die prematurely than those who are insured.

4.3: America spends 4.3 times more on health care than it does on national defense.

2.5: The uninsured often pay 2.5 times more for their medical care than the insured do, because they don't get the reduced rates insurance companies negotiate for their customers.

Sources: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA, Illinois PIRG, U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Coalition on Health Care, Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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This list of statistics were taken from a larger article regarding the rising number of uninsured in America. Read the entire article here.