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 Health Care Statistics - Healthcare expenditures in the United States exceed $2 trillion a year. (SOURCE: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group;) In comparison, the federal budget is $3 trillion a year.
- In 2007, nearly 50 million Americans did not have health insurance. This will increase by 30% over the years forward. (Source: Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey 2007, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).
According to the "CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL and PREVENTION" 1 our of 3 adults over 65 years of age fall yearly | In 2008 over 19,700 seniors died from untentional injuries from falls | In 2009 2.2 million nonfatal fall injuries among seniors were treated in the ER | Adverse drug events cause over 700,000 ER visits yearly among seniors |
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