60 Percent of personal bankruptcies caused by health-care costs,
according to the American Journal of Medicine

47 million Number of uninsured people in the United States

15.8 Percentage of Americans without health insurance

11.7 Percentage of American children without health insurance

22 Percent increase in the number of uninsured Americans in 2006 as
compared to 2000

Courtesy of the National Post, U.S. health care by the numbers.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/story.html?id=1894853