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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.
Comments
I like how the picture to go with the article
is of a girl holding up a single-payer sign.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
Thanks for noticing that
I meant to post on that -- and to remind people that it's little images like that which show why single payer continues to force itself into the discourse despite the best efforts of all of Versailles
, including the A list: Because people on the ground, locally, "get it" and support it. Of course, it's McClatchy that gets the photo.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Blue Dogs
We must come up with a better fitting name for these Democrats than "Blue Dogs." These folks are the most compromised and amoral in the entire party, and that's saying something, so that should make the rebranding a little easier.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...