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
Liz, thnx for posting this--back when my cursor went crazy
I was going to post on Obama assuring some religious group there would be no abortions funded under his health care plan.
Oh, is there going to be enough room under any single bus for all the people he's thrown under it? It has to be a caravan of busses he's using to get so many different groups under there.
Still no computer. Told I'll lose all personal data with restore--repair will not, apparently, per HP, work. Backing things up is such a good idea....
It is, as I said before, really, really scary to have only the MCM (mainstream corporate media) to depend on, with the one hour of Democracy Now on radio (with local NYC station having moved the time to 8 AM from 9 AM), NPR, and the BBC. Yikes.