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Per capita health care spending (2007):
United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
-- Bob Somerby
The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.
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To be fair
Rumsfeld did serve as a fighter pilot in the mid 1950s, and stayed active in the reserves until the late 80s. Doesn't make him any less of an asshole, but at least he didn't slink off like the other two.
Why would you want to be
Why would you want to be fair to people like this? We have spent more than a generation since Vietnam with people who opposed the war and the press being blamed for losing that war instead of the people who were in charge of that war.
Similarly, we are being told now that opposing Iraq is undermining that war effort rather than that it's a bad policy which is being carried out incompetently.