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BIG GOOGLE/BING CHALLENGE

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Think You Are Good at Using Search Engines? Find this fact for me and you will be LIONIZED on good old SeniorJunior! * The UNFINDABLE (to me so far) Fact: Total expenditure in the U.S. on health insurance premiums to for-profit health insurance companies ????? If you search exactly that (just above^) question, you get a fine US News & World Report article, but it's still impossible to know the answer to this question. Statistica also has some answers, but EVERYBODY COMBINES HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE premiums for analysis. (Why do they do that?)  Much of the data is "per-capita," but omits the uninsured, etc.  I searched for this very  basic piece of information for a good hour. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd believe the for-profit health insurance companies have made a huge (and successful) effort to hide this number.  ** It's definitely huge . Combine all the employer-provided health insurance, all the privately-purch