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sugar
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 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:42 am Post subject: Will the US ever get Universal Healthcare? |
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When Robertscare is shown to be a success, will they just take that last step?
| Quote: | Here's a Map of the Countries That Provide Universal Health Care (America's Still Not on It)
As excited as American liberals and proponents of expanding access to health care might be about the Supreme Court's decision to largely uphold the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. still stands out from much of the developed world in state efforts to make medical care available to the public. If universal health care in the U.S. is your goal, then today was a big step forward, but maybe also a reminder of how far behind America still lags.
The above map shows, in green, countries that administer some sort of universal health care plan. Most are through compulsory but government-subsidized public insurance plans, such as the UK's National Health Service. Some countries that have socialized and ostensibly universal health care systems but do not actually apply them universally, for example in poverty- and corruption-rife states in Africa or Latin America, are not counted. |
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/heres-a-map-of-the-countries-that-provide-universal-health-care-americas-still-not-on-it/259153/
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juniper
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obamacare isn't great. but they could have had something cheaper in tax payer funded universal healthcare (thrown all the uninsured on medicaid). republicans wouldn't go for that though.
it's difficult to tell. the US expenditure on healthcare is projected to be above 20% of the GDP soon. maybe when it hits 25%? the trouble is, as usual, no one currently wants to give up their little slice of the cake. Republicans are fucked top to bottom, but democrats won't give up employer funded care (unions love it).
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charly
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:16 am Post subject: |
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yes, dragging and screaming of course
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pjp
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By asking, you're implying it will be killed. I hope your instincts prove to be correct.
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