Health care is making me sick

It's 2006 and I swear sometimes it feels like we are still in the 1930s (not that I would personally know what it was like in 1930, but you get my point). Check out these stats:

• Total US health care spending in 2004 was 1.9 trillion dollars or 16% of the GDP!
• Employer health insurance premiums in 2005 increased by 9.2 %, almost three times the rate of inflation for the fifth year in a row.
• Average 2005 employer cost for a single employee was $4000.
• Average 2005 employer cost for a family of 4 was almost $11,000.
• We spend 4.3 times the amount we spend on national defense for health care.
• Health care costs are a leading contributor to bankruptcy
• The percentage of people who have employer sponsored health insurance fell from 65 to 61 percent in the years 2001-2004, or about 5 million fewer jobs have health care coverage.
• The number of people paying a quarter of their income or more rose from 11.6 million in 2000 to 14.3 million in 2004.
  
• Still no cure for cancer, AIDs, Parkinson's, and numerous other diseases.

What the hell are we paying all this money for? To many people don't have health insurance. Many who do have high deductibles and co-pays. Others have their claims denied when they need them the most.

This is a crime.

More info:
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9447-2005Feb8.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55301-2004Sep27.html