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
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
Only tyrants rig elections.
Well, at least I had the pleasure...
... of re-reading the Just So stories!
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
i don't know about the "essential" or
"evolutionary" part, but psychology in itself is immensely important -- it's enormously valuable in understanding why so many people, and certain things are the ways they are -- and also how and why changes and progress can be "sold", and rendered appealing--and maybe even put into practice.
It's a gigantic part of how and why Obama became our new president, for just one big and very important example.
would this be considered "evolutionary" ? --
(it's definitely about group psychology formed by history, and how that affects stuff)
Israel in Gaza: Irrationality