• Uninsured Americans will spend approximately $30 billion in out-of-pocket health costs.
  • Health care spending made up 16.3 percent of gross domestic product in 2007.
  • To cover all uninsured Americans would cost about $208.6 billion.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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