Statistics
"There are 45 million Americans with NO MEDICAL INSURANCE."
"Over 108 million children and adults lack dental insurance, which is over 2.5 times the number who lack medical insurance."
"More than 1 million Americans 40 and over are blind from eye disease. An additional 2.3 million Americans are visually impaired."
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"More than 10 million children (or one in four) in the United States were expected to begin the 2002-2003 school year with an undetected vision problem."
- Vision Council of America, July 2002
"Americans make more visits to nonconventional healers (some 600 million a year) than we do to M.D.s and spend more money out-of-pocket to do so about $30 billion a year by recent estimates."
- Newsweek, 12/2002
"Patients seeing chiropractors described the treatment as helpful in 96% of the cases."
-Chiropractic Health & Education, Dr. James M. Cox D.C., 1/2003
"An estimated 75% of Americans reportedly have some form of periodontal disease."
- The American Dental Hygienists' Association - 4/02