Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization

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 * Share links: Healthcare. Tea Party. 


 * 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 healthcare and harm reduction
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 * 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:

Incredible waste of health insurance companies
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2015
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 * 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."

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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