Prime Numbers: Health Insurance Edition

4.4% Profit Margin of the U.S. health insurance industry. (Yahoo! Finance)

#86 — Rank of the industry’s profit margins among all industries. (Yahoo! Finance)

2 — Number of days of U.S. health care you could pay for if you confiscated the entire 2009 profit of the health insurance industry. (The Wall Street Journal)

47% — Federal, state and local governments’ share of all health care expenditures in the United States in 2008. (CMS, National Health Expenditures, 2008)

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