Share links: canadianhealthcare and universalhealthcare. This article was written by Timeshifter. See also: Canadian healthcare and Portugal's decrim. And: End drug war with universal healthcare. See: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [3][4][5].
25 Oct 2019: Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'.
Exorbitant US medical costs
Return to top. See charts: [6][7].
Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US wastes so much money. See chart source.
- Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. By Max Roser at Our World in Data. Click the sources tab under the chart for info on the countries, healthcare expenditures, and data sources. See the later version of the chart here. Run cursor over graph lines to highlight them there.
18 Sep 2023: Medical debt nearly pushed a Colorado family onto the streets.
15 Feb 2020: Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Unnecessary Deaths Every Year.
15 Feb 2020: American health care system administrative costs are four times higher as a percent of all costs than in Canada's single-payer system.
6 Jan 2020: The High Cost of Having a Baby in America.
2 Jan 2020: US. Big Pharma celebrates new year by raising prices on over 250 drugs.
30 May 2019: Is Medicare for All ‘disruptive’? Not more than medical bankruptcy or death.
15 May 2019: Joe Biden Is Wrong. Businesses Will—and Want to—Pay for Medicare for All.. "We can lower overall health care spending by cutting out a massive intermediary (insurers)". Fortune.
2 May 2019: Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills. Los Angeles Times.
11 Apr 2019: Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills. The Atlantic.
16 Jul 2018: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. New York Times.
26 Mar 2018: Why thousands of Americans Are Risking It and Skipping Health Insurance. Bloomberg News.
Canadian healthcare is cheaper,
and has better health outcomes
List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.
13 Dec 2019: I Have 'Some of the Best' Health Insurance a Union Member Can Get, But I Would Trade It Today for Medicare for All.
22 Nov 2019: What I learned as a Canadian reporting on healthcare in America — and what Americans can learn from Canada.
19 Nov: Americans have questions about Medicare-for-all. Canadians have answers.
Excessive US medical deaths
19 Mar 2022: The South’s health care system is crumbling under Covid-19. Enter Tennessee.
8 Nov 2019: Study: At Least 15,600 Premature Deaths Resulted From GOP Blocking Medicaid Expansion. "Affordable Care Act's (ACA) expansion of Medicaid from 2014 to 2017 saved the lives of at least 19,200 people aged 55 to 64. Meanwhile, state decisions to not expand during that time led to the premature deaths of 15,600 adults in that age group."
7 May: Mothers dying needlessly: CDC says most pregnancy-related deaths can be prevented. USA Today.
Republicans leave children behind
Return to top. Republicans killing more and more children.
19 Dec 2023. Wyden Says GOP Medicaid Purge Puts 'Politics Before Children's Health'.
2 May 2019: Trumpcare: Study: (Republican) Texas rate of uninsured children double national average. Houston Chronicle.
14 Jun 2018: Texans want (Republican) state leaders to do more to solve state’s health care crisis. Houston Chronicle.
US drug company price fixing
12 May 2019: Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices. On 60 Minutes. CBS news. From article: "But 1,215 generics, many of them the most prescribed drugs, jumped on average more than 400 percent in a single year. ... 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in this country are filled with generic drugs."
US doctors support Single Payer
21 Jan 2020: Doctors Are Joining the Fight for Medicare for All. American College of Physicians, representing some 158,000 doctors.
2 Aug 2018. Can a New Generation of Med Students Help Push Medicare for All? By Natalie Shure. Pacific Standard. "Polls show that 56 percent of American doctors now support a single-payer health system, up from 42 percent in 2008."
16 Aug 2017: Doctors Warm To Single-Payer Health Care. By Rachel Bluth. Kaiser Health News
Americans want Medicare For All
Good idea. % | NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. See July 23, 2019 analysis article. See PDF page 15. "Do you think each of the following is a good idea or a bad idea?" [8]. |
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70% | "Medicare for all that want it, that is allow all Americans to choose between a national health insurance program or their own private health insurance". |
67% | "Government regulation of prescription drug prices". |
63% | "A Green New Deal to address climate change by investing government money in green jobs and energy efficient infrastructure". |
63% | "Legalizing marijuana nationally". |
62% | "A Wealth Tax, that is a higher tax rate on income above one million dollars". |
56% | "A national minimum wage of 15 dollars an hour". |
53% | "Free college tuition at public colleges or universities". |
2 Jul 2019: Majority Backs ‘Medicare for All’ Replacing Private Plans, if Preferred Providers Stay.
24 Aug 2018: New Poll Shows 70 Percent of Americans Support Medicare for All (2.3.) Short charts. Canada versus USAReturn to top. Share link: canadacharts. Many nations have better healthcare outcomes than the US. Follow the links.
Videos expose Republican mythsReturn to top. Share link: myths.
Wikipedia: Healthcare in Canada. Videos are also linked from some of the charts below. US. Highest healthcare spendingChart below is a few years old. For latest numbers see tables here:
High cost of US prescription drugsUS health last among 11 nations
Getting divorced to get healthcare
Medicaid expansion saves lives
Cannabis is saferReturn to top. Full site / Mobile. To Top or End. Note: This section and the following ones are at: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. See articles: Cannabis is safer. And: See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. See 2024 talk page (no need to log in) to leave event links, and especially compilations.
Portugal's decrimReturn to top. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links and decriminalization. See the utter failure of the US Republican-led drug war and mass incarceration: It is killing Americans at the rate of one Vietnam War every 6 months. There were around 112,100 US drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending August 31, 2023, at a rate of 307 deaths per day. 335 deaths per million US population. Only around 10 to 72 total deaths per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. See timeline table of yearly overdose deaths by European country.
Harm reductionReturn to top. End the expensive, incarceration-heavy US drug war with Portuguese and Canadian single-payer universal healthcare, and Portuguese decriminalization. Government debtReturn to top. Share link: Debt ceiling. See: Wikipedia: US debt ceiling. Save $1.5 trillion:Per year in the US: Single-payerReturn to top. Republicans oppose single-payer universal healthcare. US would save 1.5 trillion dollars per year if it instituted Canadian universal healthcare. That is 5.4% of US GDP. Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. Former US Lawmaker Finally Enjoys Social Policies He Fought for—In Europe. Medical bankruptciesReturn to top. See: Health Care Costs Number One Cause of Bankruptcy for American Families. And: Americans have high personal medical debt, unlike Canadians. [9][10][11]. High student debt is another problem Americans have due to Republican politicians. Unlike Canadians. Changing the age of adulthood to 17 would free up a year of education money. US is Broke, not Woke. Healthcare spending and debt ceiling.
Richer CanadiansReturn to top. Many sleepy Americans can't do the math concerning healthcare costs and medical debt. Also, incarceration and family debt due to the GOP-led war on drugs. Also US student debt, and US household debt due to GOP's low minimum wages, etc... Canadians are richer on average than Americans, and they have more energy because Canadians don't have to take 3 jobs, go bankrupt, or sell their homes, due to medical and student debt. See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. See: Student debt balance is forgiven after 15 years payment in Canada.
Healthier CanadiansReturn to top. See: End drug war with universal healthcare and decriminalization. Cannabis is legal across Canada. See Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada.
Health spendingReturn to top. Republicans are responsible for the large US government deficit. Because they support the wasteful US healthcare system over the much cheaper single-payer universal healthcare in Canada and elsewhere. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
Poor and sick:Return to top. Canadians are healthier on average, and their preventive healthcare is much cheaper! Versus US Emergency Room care. See Wikipedia: Health spending as a percent of GDP by country (gross domestic product). And: Wikipedia: List of countries with universal health care.
Republican states;Prohibition plus;Return to top. See Wikipedia: Republican states. See article: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps. It's also their low minimum wages, high Covid death rates, poor healthcare, high household debt, high gun death rates, high homicide rates, high incarceration rates, etc.. See: Drug war and other excessive uses of force. They are autocratic gerrymandered states that have long avoided federal oversight due to the Republican filibuster. See Wikipedia: Filibuster in the United States Senate. The US Republican Party wants to concentrate wealth at the top. So they want most people to be Broke, not Woke: Trickle-down economics. See: Beyond drug war and conservatism. The federal minimum wage would be $13.46 in 2022 dollars if its real value had remained at the 1968 level. Even more in 2023 dollars. See graph below.
Voter suppression;Return to top. Vote out the many Republicans supporting backward cannabis laws. It is purposely made more difficult by the lack of no-excuse postal voting. Just one example of Republican voter suppression in GOP states. Such as many states in the south. See Wikipedia: Postal voting in the United States. Lies of GOP radioReturn to top. Google image search: Top right wing radio hosts. How Fox News and the Right-Wing Media Machine Made My Dad Crazy. Republicans dominate talk radio. Especially in the Republican south with its backward cannabis laws. See Wikipedia: Conservative talk radio. A percentage of people in many states do not have access to broadband internet, and desktop or laptop computers. Cell phones are a poor substitute for many people. So they are left with Republican misinformation radio.
Senate filibusterReturn to top. A minority of Senators should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans. The War on Cannabis. It accelerated in the US, and that's where it will end. US Congress could legalize, reschedule, or remove cannabis from the federal schedule if the Republican filibuster were gone. Vote in US Senators who will abolish it. [16][17][18][19]. Senators Manchin or Sinema could abolish it now. Electoral collegeReturn to top. Presidents should not be elected who do not receive the highest number of votes. Abolish the electoral college. Imagine the US without the 12 years of the Bush and Trump presidencies and their backward cannabis policies. Ranked votingPresidential vetoReturn to top. Presidents should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans. See Wikipedia: Veto power in the United States.
End war powersReturn to top. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush are responsible for the US War on Drugs, and the lie that massive incarceration is a solution. See more lies in Presidents have too much power. Wars later determined to be started based on lies of Presidents, or done in secret: Trump and BidenReturn to top. Institute a mandatory retirement age for US Congress members and the President. [20]. Mandatory retirement exists for many US judges. Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are too old to be President. And Trump is just too dumb: Video: Robert De Niro on Trump Being “So F**king Stupid”. See Robert Reich: Seriously, again, how dumb is Trump? And: Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay. An expert’s view of Trump’s mental slide into dementia. Generic DemocratsReturn to top. Biden and Trump both underperform generic opponents, poll finds. A Plea to Biden: If You Truly Want to Prevent Trump Authoritarianism, Please Withdraw. Trump was not good for cannabis reform the last time around. We need more cannabis reform. That does not come from the Republican Party. Generic ballot : 2024 Polls | FiveThirtyEight. Biden needs to drop out. March 09, 2024 Newsweek report on poll: Joe Biden Voters Tell Him to Drop Out. Gaza. Canada vs USReturn to top. Compare genocidal American politicians to Canada's politicians stopping military aid to genocidal Israel. Read EXCERPT: Bernie Sanders: "This bill also provides another $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid for Netanyahu’s right-wing government to continue this barbaric war. The Netanyahu government should not receive another penny from U.S. taxpayers." Gallup Poll chart below showing US change from majority approval (Nov. 2023) to majority disapproval (March 2024) of Israeli military action in Gaza. Source: Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza. March 27, 2024 by Jeffrey M Jones. Gallup Poll. Tax cuts for richApril 15, 2024. Biden: "If Congress enacted President Biden’s tax plan, tens of millions of workers and families would have their taxes cut, nobody making less than $400,000 would pay a penny more in taxes, and the wealthy and big corporations would finally pay their fair share—which would fully pay for the President’s tax cuts and investment agenda." Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice. Republican dynasties created by regressive taxation: See: The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth. By Robert Reich.
Wealth inequalityReturn to top. See: Wikipedia: Progressive tax. Mar 19, 2024: Sanders, UAW president press harder for shorter workweek. "Today, American workers are more than 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, despite this fact, millions of our people are working longer hours for lower wages," they wrote. "In fact, 28.5 million Americans now work over 60 hours a week and more than half of full-time employees work more than 40 hours a week." After adjusting for inflation, American workers make almost $50 less a week than they did 50 years ago, they said. Jan 24, 2024 article: $8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why 'We Need a Billionaire Income Tax'. EXCERPTS: analysis found that the wealth of America's billionaires and centimillionaires has exploded in recent years as Republicans have enacted massive tax cuts for the rich ... "The cumulative $8.5 trillion of unrealized capital gains held by America's billionaires and centi-millionaires in 2022 has jumped by more than half–or $3.2 trillion–just since the last Fed survey year of 2019," END. USA. The sorry state of the nation.
Minimum wageReturn to top. Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. Simultaneous with the Republican-led drug war the GOP used the Senate filibuster to undemocratically severely restrict increases in the minimum wage at the federal level, and in GOP states.
Global warmingReturn to top. World Population Clock: 8 Billion People (LIVE). We need more trees and less people. More oxygen, less carbon dioxide. To slow down global warming. "Assuming no net migration and unchanged mortality, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable population." - Fertility rates. OECD Data. See country graphs. Also, inflation comes from an increasing population sharing one planet's resources. Many US Republican leaders oppose birth control and abortion rights (even early abortion). Another reason besides their backward cannabis laws to vote them out. Birth control and abortion (especially early abortion) is legal (even free) in many countries. That needs to expand further. We need the lowest curve below, by lowering the birth rate. ImmigrationReturn to top. The US and Europe can't import all the overpopulation of the world. Europe, especially, is already too densely populated. US Democrats and progressives in Europe need to limit immigration, or they will lose power, and cannabis policies will stagnate under right wing rule. Taxes on the rich will be cut yet more, which by definition means middle class taxes will go up, or stay up, to pay for it. Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density.
Roswell. WarmingShare link: Roswell UFO. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer playlist. [24][25][26][27][28] [29][30][31][32] [33][34]. Wildest: [35][36]. See also the David Grusch disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [37][38][39][40] [41][42][43][44][45] [46][47][48][49]. See History channel: [50][51][52][53]. National Geographic: [54][55]. See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [56]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disc" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005. Affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword. The 20 paragraph affidavit is online here: [57] (page 14). [58][59]. Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb. Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut: 30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here. 5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here. 14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video. May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors." Galactic Pot MarchReturn to top. See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. Note: See the sections at the bottom of many pages: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. 2024 talk page (no need to log in) for event links, and especially compilations.
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