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Medical Reform: 250 Fun Facts By Michael David White. September 9, 2009. Click for facts and graphs on medical reform.

	The ten largest publicly traded insurance companies made total profit of $12.9 billion in 2007. If total spending on medicine equals $2.4 trillion, then profit of the top ten equals .5% of total spending. One estimate says Medicare loses $60 billion/year to fraud. If correct, the fraud represents 4.5 times the total profit of the top ten. 97 million people are covered by not-for-profit insurers (48 percent of the people covered by the country’s 138 largest insurers.), meaning that for-profit insurance companies appear to have serious and significant competition.  Powerhouse: Median market share of all Blue Cross / Blue Shield carriers in the 34 states supplying information: 44 percent.

If you think the Swiss are good with watches, check out their health care. 

If you think the Swiss are good with watches, check out their health care.

Links to five stories and three graphs on Mike's Krazy-Radical plan for Negative-Equity Homes.