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Remember that Congressional hearing on the Massachusetts experiment in "universal health care" that you were supposed to invite your Congresscritter to [and did you?]?
Here's the video, via Healthcare-NOW!
National Lessons from State Health Reform: The Massachusetts Case Study from New Words on Vimeo.
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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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Do you know how many Comgress people attended?
or where I can find that info?
that's a good question
and i don't know the answer. i'll try to find out.
Great potential, there!
"Hospital johnnies"! I love it. If you've been looking for a term that covers all the so-called universal health care advocates (where that's defined as making sure the insurance companies business model of denying health care for profit doesn't collapse for another decade or so), I think we've got one...
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
having spent a lot of time
having spent a lot of time being a patient in hospitals, and wrestling with insurance companies over paying for it, i found that to be a particularly apt metaphor.