 Unnecessary services  Inefficiently delivered care  Excess administrative cost  Inflated prices  Missed prevention opportunities  Fraud

…is 30 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S.

ATM transactions would take not seconds but perhaps days or longer as a result of unavailable or misplaced records.

Carpenters, electricians and plumbers each would work with different blueprints, with very little coordination.

Product prices would not be posted, and the price charged would vary widely within the same store, depending on the source of payment.

Warranties for cars that require manufacturers to pay for defects would not exist. As a result, few factories would seek to monitor and improve production line performance and product quality.

Each pilot would be free to design his or her own pre-flight safety check, or not to perform one at all.

Cover the 2012 salaries for all of Major League Baseball 261 times over

Buy out all of the ad spots from Super Bowl XLVI 3,061 times over More than 74 days of ads

Pay for the London Olympic Games 52 times over

Cover all hospital and medical care for veterans for the past 51 years

Pay for all U.S. economic aid to foreign countries from 1974 to and still have more than $14 billion left over

Fund the budget of the Defense Department for one year

Cover all health care costs of uninsured Americans in 2008 more than 6 times overs

Send every 17 and 18 year-old in the U.S. to a state university for four years including room and board