46.3 million - Number of Americans without health insurance
45,000 - Number of Americans, without health insurance, who die each year due to preventable causes, according to a study by Harvard Medical School
32 million - Number of uninsured Americans who will be able to get health insurance under the new law
45.2 million - Number of older Americans enrolled in Medicare
160.6 million - Number of Americans who get their health insurance through their employer
112.2 million - Number of low and moderate income Americans who will receive subsidies to purchase health insurance
$5,761 - Per capita health care spending in the US, the highest in the world
15 - Per cent of total US GDP spent on health care, the highest in the developed world
6.8 - Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, highest in the developed world
77 - Life expectancy in the US, ranking fifth in the world
2.3 trillion -Amount spent by Americans on health care in 2007, the last year that statistics are available
390 billion - Amount of savings to be realized by Medicare in the next decade while protecting basic benefits
26 -The age until which children will be able to remain under their parents insurance coverage
143 billion - Amount of deficit reduction in next ten years attributed to health care reform
0 - Number of undocumented immigrants who will be able to purchase health insurance, even with their own money, from the state health care exchanges
0.9 - Per cent increase in Medicare taxes for individuals earning more than $200,000 or couples earning more than $250,000 per year
3.8 - Per cent tax on unearned income for those same high-income earners
100 - Per cent of members of Congress who will be required to purchase health insurance through the state run health exchanges beginning in 2014
1 - Number of western, industrialized countries without universal health care – the United States
0 - Number of Republicans in Congress who voted for health care reform
0 - Distance that health care reform moves the country closer to socialism
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i can't imagine that millions of americans are without healthcare. While millions of dollars worth of weaponry are just being exploded in the sky
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