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
It's just a typo
But it's an awesome one!
Here is some actual criticism of recent Open Left posts:
http://openleft.com/showComment.do?comme...
http://www.correntewire.com/say_what
http://www.correntewire.com/simple_answe...
http://www.correntewire.com/difference_b...
http://www.correntewire.com/strong_publi...
http://www.correntewire.com/lux_n_borg
http://www.correntewire.com/village_what...
These two new posts by Natasha and Chris, OTOH, remind me of why -- despite being publicly abused by two of their posters -- I've added them back to my Google Reader list:
http://www.openleft.com/diary/13762/ever...
http://www.openleft.com/diary/13782/pres...
(My apologies for the fact that the second post favorably describes a Clinton.)
Big Dawg helped me in my quest
for better understanding of pressure on Congress:
Thanks for the great links!
Policy not party!
Bill Clinton
that self serving racist? What the hell does he know? And why the hell are a bunch of bloggers listening to him anyway? Crazy talk!
/(snark>