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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.
* Medicare For All.
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Actually, 221
as of 6:21pm Central, with most senate "undercounts" in Obama strongholds.
Minnesota ballots are all optically scanned sheets, where you fill in an oval: like an SAT test. New, inexperienced voters may have just put in X's, which wouldn't be read by the machine counters, but the law provides for the voters intention and the intention may be clear.
That is why optical scanning of paper ballots is a very good voting system: a good paper trail for recounts.
I'm hoping my vote is "the one" that puts him over the top over the odious Norm Coleman (another serial groper according to several private accounts).
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I'm not such a bad guy once you get to know me.
A boy can dream
"Senator Franken - meet Senator Begich."
Has a nice ring to it. I'm still fully expecting the odious lickspittle Coleman to somehow prevail, but I have a glimmer of hope now that I'm wrong.
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead