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If it were really Medicare for Everybody we would just pass HR 676. Whatever they are talking about, it isn't everybody in, nobody out. Do we have a policy expert that can deconstruct this for us?
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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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It's just a rebranding, sayeth Clyburn
There's no policy aspect to it at all.
What it does do is make it easier for genuine reformers to call bullshit. I suspect that's why we're not hearing much about it -- even from "progressives."
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Brief discussion
Check out the first 3:25 of Part 1 here.