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- Why doesn't the United States have universal health care? https://qz.com/1022831/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-universal-health-care/ 23 comments politics
- Days After Hospital Bombing, United States Boasts About Health Care Access in Afghanistan http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/15/days-after-hospital-bombing-kerry-boasts-about-health-care-access-in-afghanistan/ 4 comments worldnews
- Analysis: "Universal Health Care would save the people of the United States about $600 billion" http://www.decisiondata.org/news/how-much-single-payer-uhc-would-cost-usa/ 786 comments politics
- The whole world is in recession. But the United States is the only wealthy country in which the economic catastrophe will also be a health care catastrophe http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/opinion/30krugman.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print 294 comments politics
- It's not socialism that makes health care in the United States ridiculously expensive http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/expenditure-on-health-1.gif 3 comments politics
- America has "the finest health care" in the world. We don't. In terms of results, almost all advanced countries have better national health statistics than the United States does. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/ar2009082101778_3.html?referrer=reddit 16 comments reddit.com
- [United States] Open enrollment for 2018 health care starts Nov. 1 and runs for just six weeks https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/79xqto/united_states_open_enrollment_for_2018_health/ 69 comments personalfinance
- The Shame of American Health Care: People in the United States pay more and get less than citizens in other advanced countries. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/opinion/the-shame-of-american-health-care.html 76 comments politics
- Every industrialized country in the world has better, more affordable health care than the United States -- and this is largely because they have a mandate for everyone to have insurance http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/12/the_mandate_didnt_we_cover_thi 10 comments politics
- Health Care Reform Isn't About Democrats v. Republicans -- It's About the Citizens of the United States v. the Private Insurance Industry. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-15/dr-deans-second-opinion/full/ 520 comments politics
- For every person who dies in a terrorist attack globally, 58 people in the United States die due to lack of health care. http://www.good.is/post/lack-of-health-care-kills-way-more-people-than-al-qaeda 32 comments politics
- Have the United State's high infant mortality and child mortality rates been part of the public US health care debate? http://www.bit.ly/AAw2zh 3 comments politics
- The United States government spends nearly twiceas much per capita on a private health care system then the Canada government does on its universal health care. http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/5343032/medical%20spending%20differences%20in%20the%20u.s.%20and%20canada.pdf?sequence=1 5 comments politics
- Apple has censored an iPhone application promoting health insurance reform in the United States. iSinglePayer, an iPhone application that advocates for single-payer health care reform was rejected from the App Store. http://lambdajive.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/isinglepayer-iphone-app-censored-by-apple/?preview=true&preview_id=29&preview_nonce=94ad9174dd 6 comments politics
- Aetna, one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, announced it would drastically reduce its participation in the Affordable Care Act to marketplaces in four states. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/08/aetna_abandons_all_but_4_states_public_health_care.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured 45 comments politics
- Wow. The number of Canadians coming to get health care in the United States is overwhelming. I mean - you can *almost* see the sliver in the pie chart. http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/phantoms-in-the-snow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed:+theincidentaleconomist+(the+incidental+economist+(posts)) 103 comments politics
- No Wonder America Can't Afford Health Care: The United States Accounts For Half Of The World's Military Spending. At Over $800 Billion Per Year, This Is The Equivalent Of Spending $217 For Every Person On The Planet Or $2700 For Every American. http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/11/25/global-military-defense-budgets/ 212 comments politics
- We need Health care for All — Even the Undocumented. If we can learn one thing from the pandemic, it’s that the United States must provide high-quality health care for all — including undocumented immigrants. https://progressive.org/covid-19/need-health-care-for-all-even-undocumented-navarro-200318/ 30 comments politics
- “Universal health care is an idea that has been supported in the United States by Democratic presidents going back to Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman” - Bernie Sanders http://augustafreepress.com/bernie-sanders-details-medicare-for-all-plan/ 8 comments politics
- United States Chamber Of Commerce Lobbied To Help GOP Kill Bill To Provide Health Care To 9/11 First Responders http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/17/chamber-911-responders/ 3 comments politics
- Ha ha Europe, all your socialist programs like free health care really drag down your net worth... wait... you're now wealthier than the United States? Oh... http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/15/europe-richest-region-markets-economy-assets.html 7 comments reddit.com
- "In fact, the United States lags behind all industrialized nations when it comes to direct government funding of health care, family leave, child care, and unemployment benefits." http://www.nationalmemo.com/whats-the-matter-with-white-people/ 6 comments politics
- The right to decent housing, a job that pays a living wage, health care, and peace could all be easily achieved in the United States if the economy were arranged with this purpose in mind. Sadly, it is not. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/permanent-housing-collapse/ 4 comments politics
- Sen. Bernie Sanders- "If Mr. Sanders could have his way, the United States would be like Finland or Sweden, where the government guarantees child care and health care." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/us/politics/bernard-sanders-a-voice-for-shielding-entitlements.html?_r=0 73 comments politics
- The religious right who oppose universal health care, yet endorse bombing abortion clinics, can't seem to reconcile the fact that the United States ranks 30th in infant mortality rate due to poor care of low-income pregnant women. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33604403/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/ 14 comments politics
- The United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the chief reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins. https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2019/us-health-care-spending-highest-among-developed-countries.html 790 comments science
- The United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the chief reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins. https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/us-health-care-spending-highest-among-developed-countries.html 5284 comments science
- Today Mass-Care the Commonwealth’s largest advocacy group devoted to single payer health care reform, announced its endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=56f4522053d7b0c3564d07eca&id=002f368a40 3 comments politics
- "It's true that every developed country with national health care has a lower infant mortality rate than the United States. Doesn't that mean that those who opposed or seek the repeal of the health care bill are the baby killers." http://www.indecisionforever.com/2010/03/22/texas-republican-comes-clean-about-baby-killer-outburst/#respond 5 comments politics
- Lack of Health Care Kills Way More People than Al-Qaeda - "For every person who dies in a terrorist attack globally, 58 people in the United States die due to lack of health care." http://www.good.is/post/lack-of-health-care-kills-way-more-people-than-al-qaeda 4 comments reddit.com
- If you're a United States senator, America may have the best health-care in the world. But if you're an ordinary person, you're better off being in Canada, or France, or Japan, or somewhere that doesn't take your insurance away when Wall Street causes the economy to crash. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/the_best_health_care_for_the_m.html 45 comments politics
- Cut NHS from trade deal say doctors - Doctors have voted overwhelmingly to urge the Government to remove health and social care services from a controversial trade agreement between the EU and United States http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/cut-nhs-from-trade-deal-say-doctors-31320704.html 57 comments europe
- Too High a Price: Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs in the United States - Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Tracking Survey, September-October 2014 http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/issue-brief/2014/nov/1784_collins_too_high_a_price_out_of_pocket_tb_v2.pdf 6 comments economy
- "The CBO now says the president's health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021." - Politifact: Mostly False http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/feb/05/gretchen-carlson/carlson-cbo-says-obamcare-will-cut-full-time-jobs-/ 226 comments politics
- The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath: The high price of commonly used medications for conditions like asthma contributes heavily to health care costs in the United States. Drugs account for 10 percent of the country’s $2.7 trillion annual health bill. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-simple-breath.html?emc=edit_na_20131012 7 comments economy
- The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government is in the United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups that fill their campaign coffers, not the people who vote for them. http://counterpunch.com/roberts09142009.html 14 comments politics
- Guess Who Else Is a Socialist?: "Denmark has a slightly higher tax load on its citizens than the United States. But it also has budget surpluses, universal health care, shorter working hours, and was recently rated by Forbes magazine as the best country in the world for business." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/opinion/guess-who-else-is-a-socialist.html 6429 comments politics
- Can Anyone Really Create Jobs? - Our tax code is a complex mess; we need a more effective education system; it’s hard to picture a healthy United States in 2050 without some major change in health care. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/job-creation-campaign-promises.html?pagewanted=all 19 comments politics
- Study suggests that manufacturers of three hepatitis C cures manipulated their prices in the United States to increase their revenues at the expense of community health care organizations that provide the drugs to underserved populations. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2737308 849 comments science
