US Is One Of Only Three Developed Nations Without Universal Healthcare For All

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by architek, Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 06:27:07 PM EST

Salon has a good article about the ugliness of the US healthcare situation and how it could possibly be this way.

It's entitled "The questions our healthcare debate ignores".

"Last month, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued the latest in a long series of reports on our wasteful and cruel practices that ought to awaken a sense of national embarrassment."

DEPRESSING fact that is mentioned NUMBER ONE: "Among the OECD's 30 members -- which include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom -- there are only three lacking universal health coverage. The other two happen to be Mexico and Turkey, which have the excuse of being poorer than the rest (and until the onset of the world economic crisis, Mexico was on the way to providing healthcare to all of its citizens). The third, of course, is us."

Here is the actual report from the OECD web site:
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT0000...

More: http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/9/18277/26800

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Cross post from GD I wanted to add to my journal.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5942043&mesg_id=5942043

[Lasher]

1. First link doesn't work.

Take out the /LinkTo/NT0000 at the end of the URL.

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5. Sorry...I can not do that now....I do apologise...nt

[Lasher]

6. No apology expected, just trying to help.

I've done such a thing myself only about four thousand times.

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2. This is the result of several variables.

Lobbyists control a lot of votes in the Senate and the House (e.g., AMA, the insurance industry, conglomeration of corporate and independent hospitals)

No true campaign finance reform

Doctors independent of the AMA worried about their financial future if public option is put into place

[rurallib]

3. don't forget a media thay convinces voters to vote against

their own interests. Well 95% of the media anyway.

[Psychic Consortium]

4. The US has corrupt and greedy leadership.

We have been an oligarchy.
Obama will change all of this for the better.

[wuvuj]

9. Obama will change all of this for the better.

* When does this start? So why NO action on our bought and paid for govt? Nothing will change until the big bucks are out of politics.

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7. kick

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8. kick