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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
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The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
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apparently the choices being
presented now are the insurance industry's Campaign for an American Solution on the right vs. the "liberal" Health Care for America NOW! -- horrendous article at Slate --
Health Care Reform: The Slugfest Begins
Meet the interest groups that will decide the fate of medical insurance.
I wonder if this is how it's going to be played--private insurance vs. private insurance (with some unspecified public option of some sort)?
Yes, DCB already posted on that one
back here.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
oops--just now saw your other post--
it's some awful article--we'll see if the whole Village
picks up that framing.
Thanks -- and if they pick up the framing
at least we can call bullshit in real time, and thanks to DCB's work, we've got the data to do it.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Here's the Gore video on health care should be a right
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi