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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Pictures
Dahr Jamail has the pictures, equally disturbing, of the effect of white phosphorus in Fallujah. His web sit is "MidEast Dispatch". He was one of very few non imbedded reporters who covered Iraq and is currently seeking funds to return. Those photos are probably archived. The horrific burns, flesh destruction and long term effects if you happen to live are mind boggling. We simply must find a way to Peace
wrensis
Disturb the comfortable and comfort the distrubed
This isn't white phophorus. It's DIME
Which is new, and looks worse. Yay!
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
The irony of DIME
The irony of dime is that it's supposed to keep the blast radius of the explosion down to prevent collateral damage. So much for "safer" weapons, huh?
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Yes
and surprisingly made by the US of A. Not only kills people by ripping them apart but also the added bonus of killing them with cancer in the long term. A 'win win'!
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_...