Mortality in America in 2005
Top Ten Causes of Death - # of Deaths (% of Total)
Obesity:
Diabetes:
Sources:
The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease Fact Sheet
US Mortality Data 2005, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008.
Top Ten Causes of Death - # of Deaths (% of Total)
- Heart Diseases - 652,091 (26.6%)
- Cancer - 559,312 (22.8%)
- Cerebrovascular diseases - 143,579 (5.9%)
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases - 130,933 (5.3%)
- Accidents (unintentional injuries) - 117,809 (4.8%)
- Diabetes Mellitus - 75,119 (3.1%)
- Alzheimer Disease - 71,599 (2.9%)
- Influenza & Pneumonia - 63,001 (2.6%)
- Nephritis (severe inflammation of the kidney) - 43,901 (1.8%)
- Septicemia (disease caused by toxic microorganisms in the bloodstream) - 34,136 (1.4%)
Obesity:
- About 9 million children were overweight in 2004 - more than triple the number in 1980.
- The total cost of obesity to U.S. companies is estimated at $13 billion annually. Of this, $2.4 billion is the cost of associated sick leave.
Diabetes:
- One-in-three children born in 2000 are predicted to develop diabetes in their lifetime.
Sources:
The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease Fact Sheet
US Mortality Data 2005, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008.
Costs of Health Care in America:
Chronic disease:
- Total spending on public and private health care amounted to
approximately $2 trillion in 2005. - Health care premiums for employer-sponsored family coverage have
increased by 87% since 2000. - 75% of the total spending on health care went toward medical
treatment of chronic disease.
Chronic disease:
- 133 million Americans have at least one chronic disease.
- Chronic diseases kill 1.7 million Americans every year - that's 70% of
deaths in the U.S. - People with chronic diseases account for 81% of hospital admissions;
91% of prescriptions filled; 76% of all physician visits. - 96% of Medicare spending, and 83% of Medicaid spending, went toward
medical treatment of chronic disease. - By 2025, chronic diseases will affect an estimated 164 million Americans
- nearly 49% of the population.
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Statistics
All available evidence tells us that organized medicine's monopoly on health care has proven destructive to the general welfare of the United
States, and the American people are suffering the consequences. Consider the following statistics:
All available evidence tells us that organized medicine's monopoly on health care has proven destructive to the general welfare of the United
States, and the American people are suffering the consequences. Consider the following statistics:
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