News by the Numbers - June, 2009

• None, Nada, Zip - There are no numbers and no ability to find them that can prove Obama's fantasy claims that his "stimulus" efforts saved any American jobs. It is an impossible task to calculate what the employment level will be in the future with OR without the stimulus spending, according to Tony Fratto, former White House Spokesman for President Bush.

• 5 North African Muslims, who are part of an international group, are accused of targeting Milan, and Bologna for terror attacks and have been named in arrest warrants issued by Italy.

• Only 12% of Americans' health care expenditures are paid out of their own pocket.

• 22 states, including Virginia, have laws that prohibit compulsory union membership as a condition of employment.

• 40% of physicians won't accept Medicaid patients.

• Medicaid patients are 50% more likely to die after heart bypass surgery than patients with private coverage or Medicare, according to a study cited by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a physician and health care expert.

• 60% of Americans' health care expenditures were out of their own pocket in 1960.

• Only 63% of surveyed physicians in family practice will accept Medicaid patients.

• 65% of physicians said reimbursements from Medicaid were less than their costs, according to a survey by Merritt Hawkins.

• 59 million Americans already have government health care. It's called Medicaid. Bureaucrats define what is covered and how much physicians will be paid. And, as result, there is a huge gap between being covered and actually getting health care, according to Star Parker.

• $1.5 trillion - the cost of Obama's disastrous government-controlled health care scheme.