The Status of American Health Care:
The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship. While the U.S. spends more than twice as much as other industrialized nations ($7,129 per capita) on health care, our country performs poorly on basic health indicators, ranking 23rd in infant mortality, 20th in life expectancy for women and 21st in life expectancy for men. The U.S. leaves 46 million people completely uninsured. Millions more are inadequately covered or squeezed financially in order to pay for any coverage at all.
Census data for 2005 (the latest year for which data is available) from The Office of Government Affairs and the March of Dimes reveals that one in five women of childbearing age, or 12.9 million women, were uninsured, accounting for 28% of all uninsured Americans. The uninsured rate for women of childbearing age is greater than that for Americans under age 65 overall (17.9%). And, in 2005, 9 million (11.6%) of the nation’s 78 million children under age 19 were uninsured—an increase of over 300,000 from 2004. Top Ten Women’s Health Issues
While heart disease and stroke are often thought of as key health issues for men, the fact is that they are two of the three top killers of women.

Cancer is the second most prevalent disease among women. The cancer epidemic in this country kills tens of thousands of a women a year. Here are some statistics on women and cancer:

ALL CANCERS:
Estimated U.S. population (July 2006): 298,444,215
Number of American expected to be diagnosed with cancer (2006): 1,399,790 (or 0.5% of the total population)

Estimated female U.S. population (July 2006): 151,783,235
Number of American women expected to be diagnosed with cancer (2006): 679,510 (0.4% of the total female population)

WOMEN WITH CANCER, BREAST AND GYNECOLOGICAL:
The total number of expected cases of women with cancer in the U.S. in 2006: 679,510

The number of women who have women's cancer, expected, 2006
Breast: 212,920
Cervix: 9,710
Uterus 41,200
Ovary: 20,180
Vulva: 3,740
Vagina & other genital: 2,420
Total: 290,170

WOMEN WITH GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS:
Today, in the United States, one woman will be diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer every seven minutes.
That’s over 200 women who will be diagnosed just today and close to 80,000 women this year.
Each day, 80 women die of ovarian and other gynecologic cancers, according to the American Cancer Society.
In sum, these diseases will kill 30,000 women this year.