Health-care, Insurance Plans and $$: a couple simple facts

Americans without health insurance coverage at some time during 2007 totaled about 45.7 million people.

The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington think tank, estimates that the McCain plan would cost $1.3 trillion over 10 years, and it estimates the plan would allow as many as 5 million more people to have insurance.

The Tax Policy Center estimates that Obama's plan would cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years and cover 34 million more people.

...just to put those dollar figures in perspective: in 2007, the U.S. spent a projected $2.26 trillion on health care, or $7,439 per person. Both candidates intend to cut health-care spending in certain areas such as Medicare.