Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization

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 * Share links: Singlepayer and Healthcare. See also: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian single-payer healthcare versus US healthcare. 

Data Shows More U.S. Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Drug Problems. And: 39% of U.S. Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison.

 2016 chart. < See chart in article. Also, see chart below. Portugal has 6 overdose deaths per million people. Chart below is from this article: [https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-5 Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? • AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas]. By Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry - July 9, 2017. How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis. By Chris Brown. Apr 25, 2017. CBC.ca. "Goulao says 90 per cent of public money spent fighting drugs in Portugal is channeled toward those health-care goals — just 10 per cent is spent on police enforcement."
 * Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Also has links about Portugal's drug decriminalization.

     
 * British Columbia. B.C. nurses call on feds to decriminalize drugs as opioid overdoses climb. July 17, 2018. CTV News.
 * Decriminalize all drugs, Toronto health board urges Ottawa. By David Rider. July 16, 2018. Toronto Star.
 * Canada. Police chiefs studying decriminalizing drugs as possible solution to opioid crisis. April 26, 2018. Catherine Cullen, Louis Blouin. CBC News.
 *  Norway to decriminalize all drugs, likely following Portugal's model.  By Mike Adams. Dec. 19, 2017. High Times. .
 * UK. Policing boss says cannabis should be sold in off-licences. March 9, 2018. "But he said he believed hard drugs like heroin and cocaine should only be available on prescription from pharmacies."
 * See:  Health in Portugal and  Drug policy of Portugal. And: Portugal. Cannabis-related links.
 * Developed world paying half of what USA spends on healthcare. And:  List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

26 Nov 2018: The U.S. Needs to Decriminalize Drug Possession Now.. By Ethan Nadelmann:

Countries spending the most on health care. Nov. 14, 2015. USA Today. Quote:

Gallup poll: Majority in U.S. Support Single Payer Healthcare. May 16, 2016. As do doctors. .

Portugal
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'''[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/decriminalizing-drugs-when-treatment-replaces-prison Portugal. Decriminalizing Drugs: When Free Treatment Replaces Prison.]' New York Times.''

- Portugal's universal healthcare and harm-reduction drug reform, versus Republican War on Drugs.

More on Canada
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 Patients can grow their own medical pot in Canada under new rules ..

Total healthcare costs by country per person
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 *  List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.

Note the lower healthcare cost per person in Canada for all healthcare costs (public and private): Above chart is from: US Health Care Spending More than Twice the Average for Developed Countries | Mercatus. Canada's single-payer universal healthcare costs less per person than U.S. healthcare. . For more country info and charts:.

Chart below is from: Per capita healthcare costs — international comparison.

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 * Medical Bills Still Take A Big Toll in USA, Even With Insurance. NPR. March 8, 2016.


 * Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders Have a Barber-Shop Chat About Free Health Care, and Ending The War on Drugs. Youtube. Facebook: ColoradoCare Yes. On ballot in 2016. ColoradoCareYES.co - ColoradoCare would cover all residents and cost less than the current system. One primary payer. Sanders says Clinton fails to mention that 'Medicare for all' (Single Payer) saves families about $5000 a year in premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.


 * Medicaid is health overhaul's early success story. Nov. 12, 2013.. And: Jon Stewart Slams 'Moocher' States That Won't Expand Medicaid. Oct. 11, 2013. See: HealthCare.gov.
 * 21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare. By Ralph Nader. Nov. 22, 2013. And: People Want Full Medicare for All. By Ralph Nader. Sept. 27, 2013.


 * See Wikipedia article: Obamacare.
 * Healthcare-NOW! - Organizing for a national, single-payer healthcare system. And: Wikipedia.
 * Physicians for a National Health Program. And: Wikipedia.

Universal health coverage by country
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 * Universal health coverage by country.

Universal healthcare and harm reduction
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 * Drug policy of Portugal. And Health in Portugal. And  Harm reduction.
 * See also: Portugal. Cannabis-related links.


 * Drug war failure: Greens want Portuguese model in Australia. July 19, 2015.

In the USA the Tea Party should support single-payer Canadian healthcare! It is universal healthcare, and gets better health results on average compared to the US. And it  costs less per capita. . Many US physicians support single payer.

Also, the Tea Party should support harm reduction in Portugal. It saves billions of dollars by  not  putting people in jail for drugs. It saves billions more in court and policing costs.

Universal healthcare is the norm in Europe and is essential to Portugal's decriminalization of drugs.


 * How Billie Holiday Was Hunted Down Early in the Drug War. April 9, 2015. From the article:

Majority of Americans support Medicare-for-all
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 * Poll: Majority of Americans Favor Idea of Single-Payer Healthcare System. By Mary Ellen McIntire. December 17, 2015. "Fifty-eight percent of Americans favor the idea of Medicare-for-all, a form of providing universal health insurance, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Thursday."

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'''Obamacare is better than the old healthcare system. Drug rehab for harder drugs is now paid for by Obamacare. It is far cheaper than jail.''' But Obamacare does not cover everybody because of the incredible waste of health insurance companies. Single-payer covers everybody (including veterans, most of whom are only partially covered by Veterans Administration care).




 * President of Physicians for a National Health Program: Single-Payer is The Only System that can Achieve Universal Health Care. Jan. 20, 2016. From the article:
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 * "We're talking about an overhead of about less than 3 percent [in Medicare], which is in huge contrast to private insurance companies, which runs in the double digits, often as high as 18 percent."
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Single payer is much easier to use (almost no paperwork for patients), is  far cheaper per capita, and gets better overall health results.


 * U.S. Healthcare Ranked Dead Last Compared To 10 Other Countries. June 16, 2014. Forbes: "Many continue to falsely assume that we pay more for healthcare because we get better health (or better health outcomes)." Why Do Other Rich Nations Spend So Much Less on Healthcare? The Atlantic. July 23, 2014. And 200 million claims were denied yearly before Obamacare..



Health insurance companies suck money from their hosts, but provide no tangible service. Just like toll-road companies. See: Toll Roads Are A Bad Idea. Both just handle the money, and take a cut of the money. Health insurance companies build costly buildings to house the accounting staff, and claim deniers. Toll companies build costly 16-lane toll plazas, often on expensive urban land.

More in Minnesota have health coverage but still can't afford to be sick. July 26, 2015. "In Minnesota, the share of people with health insurance has climbed to 95 percent from 91 percent since 2013, as the federal Affordable Care Act has taken hold. But insurers such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Medica have competed hard to hold down premiums as more people shopped for coverage; one way to do that is to offer more products with high deductibles and other forms of 'co-insurance.' ... As a result, even those with health insurance can face out-of-pocket costs that run to thousands of dollars, and health care providers, big and small, are seeing more bills that are left unpaid. Court cases filed by health firms seeking repayment have more than doubled since 2005, according to a Star Tribune analysis of state court records."

Doctors quitting because of bureaucracy
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 * I quit medicine. Here's what future doctors should know going into it. Rachel Kwon. 15 June 2016. The Guardian.

Before Obamacare started in January 2014
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 * Patients Mired in Costly Credit From Doctors. Oct. 13, 2013.
 * Despite slight drop in uninsured, last year’s figure points to 48,000 preventable deaths: health expert. Sept. 12, 2012. Due to lack of health insurance.



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