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And not to Big Money in the bailout, either. Well, not directly.
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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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Laughter and then sadness
I laugh at the fools who campaigned and voted for Obama, who only now--all of a sudden!--are feeling betrayed. I kept the top of the ticket blank because I didn't want to feel like I contributed to the validation of bigotry (misogyny, homophobia) and I wanted an actual fighter for Democratic principles, one who didn't give a damn if she/he was "disagreeable." But it doesn't matter now. The haters won and now everyone is paying the price for others' refusal to check Obama during the primary. It didn't have to be this way.
Here's some good news on the gay rights front: the UN is making historic strides in the fight against homophobia. The bad news: the US is not having it.
Good news, I think.
Bailout approved: Automakers to get $17.4B
WASHINGTON – Citing danger to the national economy, President Bush approved an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in rescue loans in exchange for tough concessions from the deeply troubled carmakers and their workers.