“The business of America is business.”

Calvin Coolidge, 1920

“What’s good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA.”

  Al Capp, Li’l Abner, 1953

“At $1,520 per car, there is more health care than steel in General Motors vehicles.”

George Will, Washington Post, May 1, 2003

“Health Spending reached almost $1.9 Trillion in 2004.  That’s $500 Million a day.  By 2006 we estimate it will reach 2.2 Trillion.”

California HealthCare Foundation 2005

“In 2004, Boeing’s total health care spending was $1.7 Billion…enough to buy thirty-three 737-700s.”

Boeing Frontiers Online: New and Notable, May 2005

“Health care spending in the U.S. is 4.3 times the amount spent on national defense.”

California HealthCare Foundation, March 2, 2003

“Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance…have been rising five times faster on average than workers’ earnings since 2000.”

Kaiser Family Foundation; Employee Health Benefits: 2004 Annual Survey

“Starbucks will spend more on health insurance for its employees this year than on raw materials needed to brew coffee.”

Howard Schulz in Associated Press, September 15, 2005

News Item:

“Starbucks to close 600 stores.”

Had enough of the health insurance industry yet?

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