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Health insurance premium for the average family in 2006 was $12,106. The total spent on healthcare in 2006 for the first time topped $2 trillion!
27.4 billion disposable diapers are used each year in the US. It’s a $5.7 billion business.
Character is doing what’s right when nobody is looking.
J. C. Watts, Politician
Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Total healthcare spending is projected to consume nearly 20% of gross domestic product by 2016. That’s only 8 years from now!
More than 40 million US adults did not receive health-related services in 2005 because they could not afford them according to a report by CDC.
Sixty two percent of people say that they are certain if they go into the hospital something bad will happen to them. And they are probably right. Quote made by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President & CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported 31,060 cases of individuals trying to enter the country by falsely claiming to be US citizens. 1,517 in the past three months alone. And that’s the “honest one not sneaking in!

Inside This Issue Volume 14 Issue 1, Winter, 2008