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
Gephardt
in congress was a true friend of labor and a member in good standing of the progressive wing of the Democratic party. Well now he is different, but his past dedication and services should not be ignored especially if the Nation, Obama's poodle in the primaries, says so.
KoshemBos
Not my Daddy's FKDP
I've had to end my support of many if not most of the Dems I used to really like. You can't run a primary the way they did and have the best interests of the people at heart. Not so much the outcome (Obama v Clinton), but *the manner* in which the outcome was manufactured. Everything since then has been unsurprising and not unexpected.
Only tyrants rig elections.