Education About
Single-Payer Health Care,
Improved Medicare for All

Direct Links to Specific Data / Charts / Graphs / Lists / Information

• Amenable Mortality: U.S. vs. six others
  • Avoidable deaths (amenable mortality): deaths due to Preventable Causes
    — More charts on avoidable deaths are at the Real People web page
  • Dead Last
  • Bad to Worst while Canada improves from very good to even better
• Bankruptcies caused by illness or medical debts: U.S. vs. six others
• Cost: Relative Cost per Person: U.S. vs. six others
• Elderly: Percent Elderly: U.S. vs. six others
• Free-market countries
• Health outcomes: poor U.S. life expectancy and poor U.S. amenable mortality (preventable deaths)
• Implementation of a health-care-for-all system (Improved Medicare for All) regarding physicians, nurses and beds: U.S. vs. six others
• Life Expectancy
  • Life Expectancy: U.S. vs. six others
  • 30th (WHO): Table of Life Expectancies 78-83 years old; USA was 28th, now 30th
  • 50th (CIA): CIA graph; USA was 47th, now 50th
• Maternal Mortality: better gauge than infant mortality: U.S. vs. six others
• Money: We’re Not Getting Our Money’s Worth
  • 250% the cost
  • 28th (now 30th) in life expectancy as per WHO
• Physician visits in the U.S. per year are very low: Physician Visits: U.S. vs. six others
• Public Spending per Person
• Real Life Stories - Americans inside the U.S.
• Real Life Stories - Americans outside the U.S.
• Real Life Stories - Americans fleeing the U.S.
• Spending in Canada vs. U.S.
• Spending in U.S. = only free-market country out-of-control;
  see the spending among 30 free-market countries
• Worldwide Expansion: a chronological list of what free-market countries did; except the U.S. (same web page as “World View” above)

Get More. Pay Less. Cover Everyone.
– the United States Compared to Six Other Countries

To see the following comparisons on one page go here.

• Get More
  • More Jobs and healthier, more productive workers
  • Better health:
    • Amenable Mortality - avoidable deaths under age 75
    • Life Expectancy
    • Maternal Mortality: better gauge than infant mortality; save our mothers’ lives
    • Percent Elderly: longer, healthier lives
  • Fewer hardships, such as this one example of many hardships:
    • Bankruptcies caused by illness or medical debts
• Pay Less
  • Cost: Relative Cost per Person
  • Hardships
• Cover Everyone: a health-care-for-all system
  • Physician visits in the U.S. per year are very low: Physician Visits
  • Our lower costs will allow people to go to the doctor!
• Is the implementation feasible?
  • Yes, the U.S. can implement a health-care-for-all system (Improved Medicare for All), based on the number of physicians, nurses and beds.

Other References and Resources

• Cost Estimator: A Health Care Calculator is available at the Health Care for All Texas website. The calculator which allows you to enter your projected health care costs and compare that with the costs estimated to be in effect with H.R. 676. As the introduction explains, the calculated results may be different than what the final Medicare for All legislation will be. H.R. 676 does not provide any specific numbers for the calculation, but Representative John Conyers provides a possible set of numbers at his U.S. House website. If you want to get a personal estimate now, use the calculator. If you want a closer estimate when it’s available (after the debating in Congress starts adding more specifics to H.R. 676), sign-up and pay attention to the monthly reports that come with our monthly reminders. We will announce when we have updated the tax web page; we also plan to announce when the Health Care Calculator is similarly updated.
• Messaging within the single-payer movement’s efforts to have the United States establish a health-care-for-all system: Improved Medicare for All via single-payer health care. [This is the SAME web page as “Messages” above in primary information, because we’d like everyone to get the message(s)!]
• Population Count - U.S. and world population estimated by the Census Bureau
• Quotes and articles about health care
  • Stephen Colbert
  • Wendell Potter
• Redistricting - changes in U.S. Congressional Districts after the November 2012 election, during which the new set of U.S. Representatives will be determined
• Veterans Administration