Here's more evidence--if anyone needed it--that the United States continues its decline into the status of a third-world banana republic, neglecting the needs of its citizens and squandering trillions of dollars on unneeded weapons systems.
This article from the Los Angeles Times explains how China, Mexico and other countries far less affluent are working to provide medical insurance for all citizens. It's viewed as an economic investment--not an expense.
Excerpts:
China, after years of underfunding healthcare, is on track to complete a three-year, $124-billion initiative projected to cover more than 90% of the nation's residents.
Mexico, which a decade ago covered less than half its population, just completed an eight-year drive for universal coverage that has dramatically expanded Mexicans' access to life-saving treatments for diseases such as leukemia and breast cancer.
In Thailand, where the gross domestic product per person is a fifth of America's, just 1% of the population lacks health insurance. And in sub-Saharan Africa, Rwanda and Ghana — two of the world's poorest nations — are working to create networks of insurance plans to cover their citizens. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/12/nation/la-na-global-health-reform-20120512
Read the whole article and weep--and then, dry your tears and get organized and start demanding full, universal health care for all American citizens.
Health care for all Americans can easily be paid for by slashing wasteful and unnecessary white elephant "defense" projects such as the F-35 fighter, the most expensive weapon ever. The entire program is now expected to cost taxpayers nearly $1.51 trillion; Each individual plane is now estimated to cost $160 million - more than double the $74.5 million the DoD initially estimated they'd cost.
Just think of how much good $1.5 trillion could do to keep Americans healthy and cure them when they are sick.
Think about it...and act!
Jagor
Excerpts:
China, after years of underfunding healthcare, is on track to complete a three-year, $124-billion initiative projected to cover more than 90% of the nation's residents.
Mexico, which a decade ago covered less than half its population, just completed an eight-year drive for universal coverage that has dramatically expanded Mexicans' access to life-saving treatments for diseases such as leukemia and breast cancer.
In Thailand, where the gross domestic product per person is a fifth of America's, just 1% of the population lacks health insurance. And in sub-Saharan Africa, Rwanda and Ghana — two of the world's poorest nations — are working to create networks of insurance plans to cover their citizens. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/12/nation/la-na-global-health-reform-20120512
Read the whole article and weep--and then, dry your tears and get organized and start demanding full, universal health care for all American citizens.
Health care for all Americans can easily be paid for by slashing wasteful and unnecessary white elephant "defense" projects such as the F-35 fighter, the most expensive weapon ever. The entire program is now expected to cost taxpayers nearly $1.51 trillion; Each individual plane is now estimated to cost $160 million - more than double the $74.5 million the DoD initially estimated they'd cost.
Just think of how much good $1.5 trillion could do to keep Americans healthy and cure them when they are sick.
Think about it...and act!
Jagor
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