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Is it possible, in 21st-century America? Katharine Sharpe tried it. World's Fair Summarizes, with links.
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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.
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is the few thousand people inside the Beltway who control the political life of the country; they are responsible for managing the Overton Window, for example. They are thoroughly bi-partisan. They all know each other, and they all fuck each other (both senses). The term "Village" (my term was Versailles on the Potomac) captures their provincialism, their pettiness, and how small (all senses) they really are. I believe Village is also the name of a horror movie that Digby had in mind.
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i could go plastic-free [or almost]
if we didn't have a city ordinance telling me i have to pick up my dog's poop.
I totally know what you mean
I don't have a dog... but we have to leave our trash in plastic bags.
Better noise-wise than cans,but it's the only thing that makes me get bags from the grovery now and then.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
i take that back, now that i've read
all the way through... i refuse to give up the plastic lenses in my glasses.
Oh, yeah
I missed that one. OK, maybe not ALL plastic.
(To be fair, all plastic is not the same, also.)
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
Seems Baucus has been playing a much more important role in
the health care "reform" than even his high profile on the Finance committee indicated. Which makes his apparent sof interest concerning BHIP* all the more an issue of concern.
It seems to indicate where Obama's predilections lay all along in terms of how he would would with the BHIPpers.
Yes, I think it is worse than I had thought.
*BHIP--Big Health Industry Players
Does this comment belong
here?
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
Comments on the article
now that I've had a chance to read it and reflect.
The "paper" cup she had her coffee in at Starbucks was almost certainly lined with plastic; there are other subtleties she seems not to know about.
Beyond that, as I mentioned above, there is plastic and there is plastic. Polymers ("plastic") come in a lot of forms and are made from a lot of sources, not all of them equally bad or equally destructive. I can go along with wanting to avoid polymers which are made from petroleum or which do not degrade in a nice way: this is not true of all plastics, though. So while I think this was an interesting exercise in observing how much plastic there is in our lives, I'm not sure how useful singling out "plastic" as an enemy is.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!