The things that are wrong with our health care system are threatening everything that's right with American health care.
Over the next two years, one out of four of us will be without health coverage at some point. Change jobs, lose your job, or move -- and your insurance company is currently allowed to drop you.
Today's system is rigged against families and small businesses. Insurance companies pick and choose whom they cover. Then they drop you when you get sick. If you have a pre-existing condition, you usually can't get any insurance at all.
Insurance companies charge small businesses as much as 35% more than the big guys.
Only 3 of every 10 employers with fewer than 500 employees offer any choice of health plan. Millions of Americans have almost no choice today.
Twenty-five cents out of every dollar on a hospital bill goes to bureaucracy and paperwork -- not patient care.
Fraud and abuse are exploding, costing us at least $80 billion a year. That's a dime of every dollar we spend on health care.
Our nation's health costs have nearly quadrupled since 1980. Without reform, by the year 2000, one of every five dollars we spend will go to health care.