#20 According to a survey conducted by the Doctor Patient Medical Association,
83 percent of all doctors in the United States have considered leaving the profession because of Obamacare.
#21 Approximately
16,000 new IRS agents will be hired to help oversee the implementation of Obamacare, and the Obama administration has given the IRS
500 million extra dollars "outside the normal appropriations process" to help the IRS with their new duties.
#22 During 2013, Americans will spend
more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs.
#23 Prescription drugs cost
about 50% more in the United States than they do in other countries.
#24 In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans
than heroin and cocaine combined.
#25 Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to the CDC. Not only that, the CDC also says that approximately one-third of all Americans use two or more pharmaceutical drugs on a regular basis, and more than ten percent of all Americans use five or more pharmaceutical drugs on a regular basis.
#26 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America
is higher than in any other country in the world.
#27 In 2010, the average teen in the U.S. was taking
1.2 central nervous system drugs. Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and depression.
#35 In America today, you are
64 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than you are by a gun.
#36 People living in the United States
are three times more likely to have diabetes than people living in the United Kingdom.
#37 Today, people living in Puerto Rico
have a greater life expectancy than people living in the United States do.
#38 According to OECD statistics, Americans
are twice as obese as Canadians are.
#39 Greece has
twice as many hospital beds per person as the United States does.
#40 The state of California now ranks
dead last out of all 50 states in the number of emergency rooms per million people.
