US annual health care costs in chicken terms

[housewolf]

This should put it all in perspective

From Talking Points Memo

Total U.S. health care costs in 2008: $2.3 trillion
US population: About 300 million
Average cost of health care per person: $7,681
Average weight of a chicken: 5.9 lbs
Market price per pound: 85 cents
Average spot price per chicken: $5.02
Average number of chickens per resident needed to cover health care costs: 1,530 chickens
Total number of chickens needed to cover United States health care costs: 459 billion chickens
Estimated worldwide chicken population: 16 billion chickens
Current worldwide chicken shortage to cover U.S. health care: 443 billion cluckers

more...
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/fowl-math-for-a-chicken-based-economy.php?ref=fpa

[Festivito]

1. People are too chicken to talk about what it should cost.

Every decent country:
$3,500 Canada
$3,000 Great Britain
Yeah...
$3,000 for just about every country
Covers everything for everybody.

Total cost for 300-million Americans SHOULD BE $3,000 per capita per year:
0.9 Trillion dollars.
597 chickens per person.
179 billion chickens
163 billion chickens short, because of
535 dumb clucks.

[Ralphie40]

2. I'm not sure of your costs but it's still funny

[Festivito]

3. It's the 3000 number that's good. No one admits it.

How can it cost about 3000 dollars a year per person in so many countries covering everyone for everything, and here? TWICE AND MORE to cover less for fewer.


I'TS FRUSTRATING.