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| Age Group | Deaths |
|---|---|
| 25-34 | 1,930 |
| 35-44 | 3,431 |
| 45-54 | 4,734 |
| 55-64 | 8,219 |
| Total | 18,314 |
| Executive | Firm | Pay | New Stock Options |
| John Rowe | Aetna | $3.5 mil | $5.4 mil |
| Ronald Williams | Aetna | $2.3 mil | $3.8 mil |
| Larry Glasscock | Anthem | $3.3 mil | $22.9 mil |
| Edward Hanway | Cigna | $1.0 mil | $6.4 mil |
| Jay Gellert | Health Net | $1.5 mil | $11.7 mil |
| William McGuire | United Healthcare | $7.2 mil | $72.0 mil |
| Stephen Hemsley | United Healthcare | $3.3 mil | $14.9 mil |
| Leonard Schaefer | Wellpoint | $6.9 mil | $12.0 mil |
- NME (Tenet) – $683 million: Medicare fraud, patient abuse
- SmithKline, Cornng, LabCorp – >$800 million: billing fraud
- Caremark – >$200 million: kickbacks & fraud in home IV business
- Fresenius/NMC – $486 million: dialysis fraud
- Roche & BASF – > $725 million: price fixing cartel
- Beverly – $175 million: Nursing home fraud
- Noll – $135 million: Suppressing research data on Synthroid
- Columbia/HCA – $745 million: fraud + continuing investigation
- TAP Pharmaceuticals – $875 million: criminal kickbacks, Lupron
- Schering-Plough – $500 million: Shoddy manufacturing
- Bayer – $275 million: criminal Medicaid fraud
- Hospitals: Costs 3-11% higher, fewer nurses, higher overhead, death rates 6-7% higher, fraud
- HMOs: Higher overhead, worse quality, collaboration with tobacco industry
- Dialysis: Death rates 20% higher, less use of transplants & peritoneal dialysis, fraud
- Nursing Homes: More citations for poor quality, fraud
- Rehab Hospitals: Costs 19% higher
- 1/3 are uninsured or underinsured
- HMOs deny care to millions more with expensive illnesses
- Death rates higher than other wealthy nations’
- Costs double Canada’s, Germany’s, or Sweden’s – and rising faster
- Executives and investors making billions
- Destruction of the doctor/patient relationship
- Guaranteed access
- Free choice of doctor
- High quality
- Affordability
- Trust and respect
- Universal – covers everyone
- Comprehensive – all needed care, no co-pays
- Single, public payer – simplified reimbursement
- No investor-owned HMOs, hospitals, etc.
- Improved health planning
- Public accountability for quality and cost, but minimal bureaucracy
- Everyone receives a health care card assuring payment for all needed care
- Complete free choice of doctor and hospital
- Doctors and hospitals remain independent and non-profit, negotiate fees and budgets with NHP
- Local planning boards allocate expensive technology
- Progressive taxes go to Health Care Trust Fund
- Public agency processes and pays bills
- Every other industrialized nation has a health care system that assures medical care for all
- All spend less than we do; most spend less than half
- Most have lower death rates, more accountability, and higher satisfaction
- Excellent hospitals, empty beds
- Enough well-trained professionals
- Superb research
- Current spending is sufficient
This slide show was created by Physicians for a National Health Program (pnhp.org) and provides an overview to the problems with our current system and how a single payer system can solve these problems.
This version has been converted from a Powerpoint slide show in order to run in a web browser.
If you would like someone from KYHealthCare to give a similar presentation to your organization, please let us know!
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