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Arizona Information

 

Health Insurance Coverage of the Population
	Arizona Population	Percent
Employer	2,877,500	44%
Individual	330,300	5%
Medicaid	1,237,100	19%
Medicare	721,900	11%
Other Public	71,100	1%
Uninsured	1,273,300	20%
Total	6,511,200	100%

• Number of hospitals: 72
• Number of nursing facilities: 135
• Number of federally qualified rural health centers: 30
• Number of physicians: 9,960
• Number of registered nurses: 36,570
• Number of dentists: 5,007

Health Care Stat Stew

Health care is about 17% of total spending in the U.S.; 2% on prevention and 75% on preventable diseases.

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Health care is about 10% of spending in Japan and France

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Retirees may spend $240,000 on health care in last years

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Medicaid covers about 21% of children in the U.S., 44% in Arizona

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Obesity costs a 1,000 employee company about $300,000, yearly; since 1980, obesity has doubled.

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Physicians spend about 25% of their time on management issues including billing payment problems.

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Average medical costs during the last six months of life: $17000.

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Medicare members buy about half of prescription drugs

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