We Need Universal Coverage, Care System Reform, and Care System Competition

The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that does not have universal health care coverage for its citizens.

That fact should be an embarrassment and shame to us all. We spend nearly $2.5 trillion on care and we spend nearly 50 percent more of our Gross National Product (GNP) on health care than the rest of the industrialized world.1 Yet we have over 46 million completely uninsured people and at least 10 million more seriously underinsured people.2