OT: The Economy & Healh Care - KISS

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OT: The Economy & Healh Care - KISS

Post by Slinky » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:24 am

Ratio of average CEO’s pay to typical worker’s pay in 1979: 27 to 1; Ratio in 2007: 275 to 1

• Share of total U.S. health care costs paid by private insurers in 2007: 35%
• Share of total health care costs paid by U.S. government in 2007: 46%

http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/l ... e_numbers/

and an interesting series:

The State of Working America series

The State of Working America 2008-2009

http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/sw ... xecsum.pdf

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Re: OT: The Economy & Healh Care - KISS

Post by DreamStalker » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:23 am

Depressing but very predictable consquences from 8 years of conservative weapons of economic destruction.
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