people suffering from pain and we have to come up with a new solution for pain therapy. that s what the study is showing up. up until now, we said there is an addiction problem, an epidemic, but this is the first study to give us hard numbers. one in three americans in 2015 used prescription opioid. of those, 11.5 million misused and 1.9 million were addicted. i mean, they simply use ed it outside of the directions of their doctor, took somebody else s medication, used it too often, used too much. and what this is showing us is that this addiction problem is definitely here and is serious and something that needs to be addressed. and i agree with governor christie, this is something that right now the commission is showing needs to have more money and more emphasis put into it to try to get it under control? and jacob, you ve been on the front lines trying to illustrate this. i want to play a little bit from your series and talk on the other side.
along with the gold, silver and bronze plans. these are price tags the president thinks you re going to be happy with. when people look and see that they can get high quality, affordable health care for less than their cell phone bill, they re going to sign up. for less than your cell phone bill. that is the key here and for a majority of people who are uninsured, they could get coverage for $100 or less. today for the first time, the federal government giving us hard numbers. $328. health and human services says it s the national average premium for a silver plan. before subsidies. 60% less than the congressional budget office projected. that s just an average. it depends on where you live, how old you are. a couple of examples. a single 27-year-old in texas making $25,000 a year would pay $83 a month for the lowest bronze plan.
this will give an opportunity for people to afford their own insurance so they can go into a primary care physician, which costs 10 times less on average [overlapping dialogue] e. one at a time. hard figures, hard numbers. 3 years out. what are we going to appreciate in terms of savings? hard numbers. i don t want to hear about babies. i want to hear numbers. that s the last question. what i can say to you is this, when this bill is fully implemented that 9,000 businesses in my district in bronx and queens will be able to afford to have health care for their constituents. it means 160,000 people in my district today who, cannot afford health insurance can buy it. that s hathis means don t interrupt [overlapping dialogue] i don t think so.
this will give an opportunity for people to afford their own insurance so they can go into a primary care physician, which costs 10 times less on average [overlapping dialogue] e. one at a time. hard figures, hard numbers. 3 years out. what are we going to appreciate in terms of savings? hard numbers. i don t want to hear about babies. i want to hear numbers. that s the last question. what i can say to you is this, when this bill is fully implemented that 9,000 businesses in my district in bronx and queens will be able to afford to have health care for their constituents. it means 160,000 people in my district today who, cannot afford health insurance can buy it. that s hathis means don t interrupt [overlapping dialogue] i don t think so. i don t think so.
regulates inactivity. this will give an opportunity for people to afford their own insurance so they can go into a primary care physician, which costs 10 times less on average [overlapping dialogue] e. one at a time. hard figures, hard numbers. 3 years out. what are we going to appreciate in terms of savings? hard numbers. i don t want to hear about babies. i want to hear numbers. that s the last question. what i can say to you is this, when this bill is fully implemented that 9,000 businesses in my district in bronx and queens will be able to afford to have health care for their constituents. it means 160,000 people in my district today who, cannot afford health insurance can buy it. that s hathis means don t interrupt [overlapping dialogue] i don t think so.