Friday, March 23, 2007

Universal Health Care

Is Universal Health Care coming to the USA in the near future? I sure do support it. I could retire tomorrow if I had free healthcare. Tomorrow, in Las Vegas, a forum called "A New Leadership on Health Care" will be held. Most of the Democrat candidates for president will be there to tell us what their ideas are for the future of health care in the USA.

We have 47 million people in the USA without health insurance. Over 1/4 of those uncovered individuals live in families that make between $25,000 -49,999 a year. Nine million children are uninsured.

Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden have single payer national health insurance, Great Britain and Spain have national health services and France and Germany have highly-regulated, universal, multi-payer health insurance systems. Yet the richest, most powerful nation on Earth can't do the same?

The USA ranks 40th in infant mortality rate! Cuba has a slightly better infant mortality rate than does the USA! Yet we spend almost twice as much per person on health care as do most developed nations.

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