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
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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
Let go home
Soto from LeftCaster (he should join SaddamCoaster instead) has told Hillary: go, leave. By all means. Let's, half the Democratic party, leave and leave Obama to compete with McCain without us.
If we needed a proof that Obama is the worst, we got it. McCain with all his twists and turns is a much more decent person and considerably less hateful than our Obama/Soto/Kos Gitmo guards.
KoshemBos
uh, no.
Obama's handlers might rival McCain's for sheer evil, but I refuse to entertain any dream world where McCain is the better candidate.
This is a man who hates the Vietnamese with all the force of his tortured body, who now votes against veterans and for torture. This is a man who'll be glad to do what the religious right says, if they need a bone to be thrown at their constituency. He has switched approaches and beliefs, to get elected.
That is hands-on meanness and hatred, and speak what you will of Obama, but I don't think he gets his hands dirty like that.
Partial agreement...
... but one could also translate "I don’t think he gets his hands dirty" to "plausible deniability," right? And after this campaign, I am entirely willing to.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] 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
The only dirty hands I care about
are the ones most likely to pull the nuclear trigger, and I think McCain is the person most likely in generations of presidential candidates to do it in a fit of pique. We have too unstable and messianic an Armed Forces to allow a man so extreme and changeable to get into the WH.
Obama will be worse than Clinton, but he's not borderline psychotic and corrupt for decades, to the bone.