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ctblogger interviews "Juan Figueroa (President, Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut) and talked to him about the importance of HB 6600." Figueroa is pushing for a universal healthcare solution on the Connecticut state level.
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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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Will state plans remain?
My worry - no, my expectation - is that the new federal/corporate health make-over will include some little unadvertised provision that makes all state plans illegal (kind of like what was done to California's effort to control car emissions). In essence, the federal government will mandate that we pay health taxes, oops I mean insurance premiums, directly to corporations. That would cut out the middleman - the government. And we won't have the choice of opting for a state plan - that would reduce corporate income!
I don't think this dude
is pushing for single payer so I don't think it matters much. I believe they want to open up the state employees healthcare (for-profit). While pooling like this would mean less expensive premiums it does NOT make it as inexpensive as single payer.