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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preach it vastleft
Someone who does that should be the object of public derision, don’t you think?
A person must first possess dignity
before they would be able dignify anything.
The definition of dignity is:
So Vastlet, be not too hard on Ms. Ifill. That which you would wish from her is not within her power - nor the power of majority of her esteemed peers - to provide.
Like many Villagers, she has a regal bearing
And aren't self-love and the adoration of many sycophants close enough to self-respect and honor?
Seems to suffice for our Beltway Betters.
Poor Gwen
Times you want to break down and cry.
The poor thing, how does she keep her chin up?
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Around these parts we call cucumber slices circle bites
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I'm not such a bad guy once you get to know me.
It's hard to be regal if you're gaga about Latifah portraying u.
Just seem very professional.
I love this job!
I love this job!
Who's more regal than a
Queen?
And of course the incomparable Somerby
on the subject of The Fine Art Of Kissing Up To A Moderator
Poor, Gwen.
She's the victim, her, in all of this. Big, bad, manipulative Governor Palin was just too much for her.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...