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
Change you can believe in, huh??
Well, I'd even take some spare change at this point. And this is the administration that is gonna give me da bestest healthiest care evuh? It almost a good thing I am in kidney failure... At least that scenario makes me eligible for Medicare.
Thank God for the interruptions of RL! Later!