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U.S. national health expenditures per capita are projected to be $13,100 in 2018. They were $2,814 per capita in 1990.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation/CMS

The 2008 monthly average enrollment in Medicare consisted of 37.5 million elderly and 7.3 million disabled persons.
Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Medicare’s average monthly enrollment in 2008 was 44.8 million people.

Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

In 2008, 6.5 percent of the U.S. population failed to obtain needed medical care due to cost at some time during the year.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 

For 2009, there are a reported 1,544 pharmaceutical and health products company lobbyists.
Source: Center for Responsive Politics

The Federal Employee Health Benefits program, which contracts with 111 health plans and offers 269 health plan options, covers approximately 8 million federal employees, retirees and their dependents.
Source: Office of Personnel Management

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and the disabled, covers 46 million Americans. Medicare spending totaled $455 billion in 2008.

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation

There were 2.6 million children who lived with both a grandmother and a grandfather in the U.S. in 2008.

Source: Census Bureau

There were 6.6 million children living with a grandparent in the U.S. in 2008. That’s 9 percent of all children in the country.

Source: Census Bureau