HR676 - The Single Payer Solution (4 parts)

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US health care hell

Paul Krugman: Health Care Horror Stories .
via healthcare-now.org

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save the world: universal health care

In countries with greed-driven health care like the USA’s (where over 47 million people are not covered by a health care plan), poor people postpone visiting doctors until it’s absolutely necessary. As a result:

Diseases spread further.
The cost of health care increases.
People die who could have been saved.

Dying for Coverage at Families USA has a state-by-state [...]

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NYTimes acting like a real newspaper

Living in Fear and Paying a High Cost in Heart Risk asks (and partially answers), “Which is more of a threat to your health: Al Qaeda or the Department of Homeland Security?”

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Robert Reich explains D.L.C.-approved health care

From Democrats Should Stop Squabbling Over Healthcare Mandates:
In almost every important respect, all major Democratic plans are the same. They require employers to “play or pay” — either provide coverage to their employees or contribute to the cost of coverage. They create purchasing pools that will offer insurance to anyone who doesn’t get it from [...]

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life in a socialist hellhole

From United Nations: Nordic Countries Best Place to Live in the World:
In Norway, 99 percent of the population can read and write, there are 413 doctors per 100,000 citizens, the average life expectancy is 78.4 years, and the Norwegians are even wealthier than ever before. The famous Nordic social welfare state remains efficient and provides [...]

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George W. Bush loves socialized medicine…for himself

From here:
No one has the nerve to brand this country’s purest systems of “socialized medicine” — the military and veterans hospitals — for what they are. In both systems, care is not only paid for by the government but delivered in government facilities by doctors who are government employees. Even so, a parade of Washington’s [...]

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what should matter to voters in 2008

John and Elizabeth Edwards in Portsmouth, NH.
Yes, I want a peaceful revolution, but I don’t expect it in the next year. Of the three most likely near-left candidates, this one sees the problems most clearly. At least he understands that universal health care should mean that everyone is covered.
later: The best plan for the US [...]

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today’s health care facts

Countries with some form of universal health care (from here, Norway added):
Afghanistan*, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq*, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine [...]

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Liking Edwards better than Obama, reason #1

Edwards’ proposal for universal health care is, well, more universal. Paul Krugman explains it here. The key point: “The Obama plan doesn’t mandate insurance for adults. So some people would take their chances — and then end up receiving treatment at other people’s expense when they ended up in emergency rooms.”
Via the Sideshow, where Avedon [...]

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