"Expenditures on health care in the United States – already the highest per person in the world – are predicted to nearly double by 2016, to $4.1 trillion, or 20 percent of GDP. If this trajectory is not altered, in less than a decade, 20 cents out of every dollar produced in America will be spent on health care."

� Goldman, DP and McGlynn, EA, "US Health Care: Facts About Cost, Access, and Quality," RAND Health Report Jan 2005