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.
Comments
I can just imagine the send-off
that Bush and Cheney are going to get.
However, when I see that asshat get on the helicopter, turn and wave, and disappear into the darkness, I pray I never have to see that smirking idiot again.
The video of them applauding...
...embodied everything wrong in our country. It was literally the Good Ole Boys celebrating the Good Ole Boys' Network.
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
Patty Murray?
I'm looking at the Senators that spoke during Stevens Going-Away party, and one names seems totally out of place in the line-up and that is Patty Murray's. I guess I don't know her well enough, but I can't possibly understand what she'd be doing speaking for him. Anyone?
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...