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
Chelsea called us about this tonight
I wondered why my husband was chatting with Chelsea Clinton. Turns out it was a recording about this event tomorrow night. I can't go either.
Was this on her previous schedule of appearances?
(shrug) Wonder if this is a last-minute thing. Something big happening?