[ale] Incompetent corporate web sites (was: Ubuntu Linux ROCKS!)

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:45 AM, wylde bill <durtybill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why, if every citizen of the US contributed ONE DOLLAR towards a public
> health collective it would IMMEDIATELY be the largest trust in the
> world.  Dwarfing Mr. Gate's fortune by at least a factor of 8x.

There would be a whopping $300M or so if every US resident chipped in that buck.

Comparatively, that's a minor drop in the bucket that won't fund Grady
Hospital for longer than about 6 months.

"In 2007, national health care spending reached $2.2 trillion, or
$7,421 per person."
http://www.chcf.org/topics/healthinsurance/index.cfm?itemID=133630

That's a chunk of cash that is still less than the deductible on my
major medical coverage.

So that $1/person covers aggregate costs for 40,425 people in 2007. To
hit that 2007 cost level, everyone must kick in $20/day. That's higher
than the average daily food costs per person in the US ($7 per day
according to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/nutrition/04well.html/?_r=1
)

Ouch.
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