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Costs are mounting in areas hit hard by the wave of mortgage failures in ways other than personal loss. Where vacant houses are popping up like fleas, housing values fall, the tax base suffers, and businesses lose sales. BBC.com has an interesting analysis of the situation, and notes that bailing out the lenders will not help the communities that are afflicted.
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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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