National Lessons from State Health Reform: The Mass. Case
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National Lessons from State Health Reform: The Mass. Case
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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.
The Village
is the few thousand people inside the Beltway who control the political life of the country; they are responsible for managing the Overton Window
, for example. They are thoroughly bi-partisan. They all know each other, and they all fuck each other (both senses). The term "Village
" (my term was Versailles
on the Potomac) captures their provincialism, their pettiness, and how small (all senses) they really are. I believe Village
is also the name of a horror movie that Digby had in mind.
Comments
Universal health care
Universal health care is real simple.
Toss everyone that pays taxes names into a big barrel. Then draw twenty names at total random.
Then choose which ten countries have the longest life expectancy.
Then send the twenty selectors to all of the countries with long life.
Then have them decide which country has the best plan.
Then copy it exactly.
Do not reinvent the wheel. The problem has been solved.
Self exile
how to recognize a data mining scam
I just received an email from HCAN't asking me to thank the Senate Fiance committee and sending me link to a web form that supposedley allows you to do that. Except, if you know anything about capitol hill email, you know that it is designed to bounce any email that does not originate from the Senators state, so unless one of those Senators is your senator, the email will be bounced.
But in the mean time HCAN't will be able to harvest all your information. This is the disdain with which Versailles
regards the rest of us, we are just fools to be manipulated, stepping stones for their ambition, not fellow citizens to be treated w/ respect.