2. Source:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality MEPS Percent of health Care Costs 1% 1% 2% 4% 6% 13% 73% 0% 0% 0% The Health and Profitable to the “Market,” the Sick and Poor to the Taxpayer Private Insurers Government Programs

3. Unnecessary Procedures

4. Growth of Physicians and Administrators 1970-2005 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and NCHS

7. Drug Companies’ Cost Structure

9. “Would you prefer the current system or Universal Health Insurance…like Medicare…run by Government…financed by Taxpayers” Source: Washington Post/ABC News Poll, 10/20/03 Universal Health Insurance

10. Single-Payer: “ Politically Feasible? ” Abolition of Human Slavery (1860s) Women’s Suffrage Movement (1840-1920) Civil Rights Act (1964) Other “Politically Infeasible” Movements