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kcwolf
kcwolf
Thanks for your response, the numbers should scare a conservative to death !!
25 years ago, cost 3,000 cash, at Vanderbilt, top hospital, best care possible.
kcwolf
Thirty-five years ago, our first child was born in a hospital. We had no insurance, cost us around $800.
We have the highest GDP for healthcare is going up quickly. In 2008, total national health expenditures were expected to rise 6.9 percent -- two times the rate of inflation. Total spending was $2.4 TRILLION in 2007, or $7900 per person. Total health care spending represented 17 percent of the gross domestic product.
U.S. health care spending is expected to increase at similar levels for the next decade reaching $4.3 TRILLION in 2017, or 20 percent of GDP.
I'd hazard to say something needs to be down.
Thanks for your response, the numbers should scare a conservative to death !!
25 years ago, cost 3,000 cash, at Vanderbilt, top hospital, best care possible.

