Universal Single-Payer Healthcare Coverage: An Economic Stimulus Plan

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-- all enrollees having "the same health services, costs, eligibility requirements, and administrative cost burden.

Indirect Transactions/Activity

These occur when providers buy services or supplies to deliver care:

-- in America, $2.1 trillion in expenditures generates an additional $1.37 trillion in indirect transactions;

-- manufacturing with $307.6 billion benefits most; and

-- in 2006, health care totaled 9.2% of GDP.

Induced Transactions

These are health care worker household consumption transactions, and the indirect sector spending their income:

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