Do you want Universal Healthcare?

The topic of universal healthcare seems to be coming up rather frequently lately. Most polls conducted in the past twenty-four months indicate that Americans want some form of universal healthcare.

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Judging both from comments on this blog and from some of my mail, a significant number of Americans believe that the answer to our health care problems — indeed, the only answer — is to rely on the free market.

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Is "Socialized Healthcare" Evil?

The year was 2001. I woke up one early spring morning with a terrible shortness of breath, gasping for air and unable to get control over my breathing. My parents rushed me to one of our local hospitals, and we checked into the emergency room.

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Time For Democrats To Play Hardball With The Healthcare Narrative

Gary over at TPM raises a significant point on the healthcare debate, asking "Ever wonder why Republicans aren't holding live town halls on healthcare?" The conclusion at which he arrives - and I am inclined to agree with him - is that no Republican politician in his right mind …

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You hear leading Republicans say that the U.S. has the best health care system in the world. They say that at press conferences. They say that during interviews on cable news networks. They say that to the Washington Press Corps.

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Dear Wingnut, The U.S. is unique among industrialized Western nations in the degree of its reliance on "free market" mechanisms to provide healthcare. Nations such as my own, Canada, have "socialized" systems that have been in place for a very long time.

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That's because the Obama spending plan is packed with an unprecedented takeover of our healthcare system. It's the master plan of the Obama/Clinton team who have been waiting for this moment for years.

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Who owed Centinela that elusive $25 million? According to hospital officials, it was health insurance companies.

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For Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama It All Comes Down to Ohio, Texas, and Healthcare

The Democratic nomination is going to come down to the wire and, for Hillary Clinton, everything hinges on Texas and Ohio.

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Guaranteed health insurance for all combined with several federal policy options to achieve health care system savings could result in $1.5 trillion in reduced spending over 10 years in the United States, a new study shows.

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So this is what we have to look forward to if Hillary or Obama becomes President? No thanks!!!

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A combination of expensive health insurance and an ever-increasing rate of obesity appear to be behind a startling fall by the US in the world rankings of life expectancy.

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These days it sometimes seems like a foregone conclusion that we're going to have socialized healthcare in this country. This is quite a tragedy to contemplate.

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Lamborghini Healthcare: Why Billionaires Shouldn't Determine Health Policy

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's richest man and its former Prime Minister, recently flew to a hospital in Cleveland to have a pacemaker installed.

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Canada's first private clinic to treat emergency patients has opened against a backdrop of opposition and a strong government warning the for-profit facility could be shut down if it's illegally charging for services already paid for under the public system.

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