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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.
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A little help with this one?
About gays.
The dove one? Grisly, but so terribly, sadly accurate.
I read that one as...
If it's graffiti or public comment, we call it out as prejudice. Yet, gay hate has been ratified into legislation again and again.
That's what I was afraid of--how prescient.
n/t
Sadly, not prescient
Just observing a long continuum.
because you're a philistine?
mr fish has been one of my favorites for ages.
Well, there's
a simple answer to a simpleton's question.