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Today's single payer post, Italy: Under an hour in the ER, no co-pay, $50 for medicine

Sat, 07/26/2008 - 11:07am — DCblogger

My girlfriend and I recently visited Rome. While there, a stray cat attacked her. The injury was bad enough to need a doctor, so we visited a hospital’s emergency unit and waited under an hour for care. The doctor wrote a prescription and gave my girlfriend a shot to ease the pain. We had no idea what to expect in respect to cost: Italy has a universal health-care system, but we were not citizens. In total the doctor visit cost us nothing, and we paid $50 for medicine.

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Today's single payer post: NY and the battle for GHI/HIP

Sat, 07/19/2008 - 11:26am — DCblogger

Phase Two...GHI/HIP

BTW: The AFT has endorsed HR 676........Hmmmm...the AFT endorses HR 676 and our union leaders are lining up for a piece of the pie of the conversion money from the possible privatization of GHI and HIP. Now that's unionism!!!!

Tom Duane's letter to the New York State Insurance Department

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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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