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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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i could go plastic-free [or almost]
if we didn't have a city ordinance telling me i have to pick up my dog's poop.
I totally know what you mean
I don't have a dog... but we have to leave our trash in plastic bags.
Better noise-wise than cans,but it's the only thing that makes me get bags from the grovery now and then.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
i take that back, now that i've read
all the way through... i refuse to give up the plastic lenses in my glasses.
Oh, yeah
I missed that one. OK, maybe not ALL plastic.
(To be fair, all plastic is not the same, also.)
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
Seems Baucus has been playing a much more important role in
the health care "reform" than even his high profile on the Finance committee indicated. Which makes his apparent sof interest concerning BHIP* all the more an issue of concern.
It seems to indicate where Obama's predilections lay all along in terms of how he would would with the BHIPpers.
Yes, I think it is worse than I had thought.
*BHIP--Big Health Industry Players
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
Comments on the article
now that I've had a chance to read it and reflect.
The "paper" cup she had her coffee in at Starbucks was almost certainly lined with plastic; there are other subtleties she seems not to know about.
Beyond that, as I mentioned above, there is plastic and there is plastic. Polymers ("plastic") come in a lot of forms and are made from a lot of sources, not all of them equally bad or equally destructive. I can go along with wanting to avoid polymers which are made from petroleum or which do not degrade in a nice way: this is not true of all plastics, though. So while I think this was an interesting exercise in observing how much plastic there is in our lives, I'm not sure how useful singling out "plastic" as an enemy is.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!