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
Thank-You, DCblogger
For this terrific series of posts.
Invaluable, really.
We shouldn't give up on Single-Payer, and this series gives us all sorts of information and ammunition.
Proud to have it and you here at Corrente.
proud to be here
thank you for creating a blog with a decent audience for this information.