World View:
National Health Insurance
See the worldwide expansion below with a “timeline” (chronological list) of U.S. Congress’ failures to implement national health insurance while other countries around the world implemented it and benefited.
Summary
- Other countries have took action and benefited … most of them over 30 years ago.
- The U.S. Congress failed to act in 1935, 1948, 1991, 1994, 2003, 2006, and 2009.
All other free-market countries have national health insurance for their people. The American people will have it when the United States establishes single-payer, Medicare for All.
Worldwide Expansion of
National Health Insurance
As you can see by the notes in red, below, the United States has not yet participated in a worldwide movement to implement national health insurance and its resulting efficiency in health care financing. The inefficiency relative to other countries is causing us to lose businesses, jobs, health and even our lives! … and at the same time spend over twice as much more per person than the average of other countries!
| 1883 | Germany |
| 1911 | Switzerland |
| 1935 | United States - CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT Proposed by the President. Strong public support, but failed in the U.S. Congress. |
| 1938 | New Zealand |
| 1945 | Belgium |
| 1945 | France |
| 1946 | United Kingdom |
| 1947 | Sweden |
| 1948 | United States - CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT Proposed by the President. Strong public support, but failed in the U.S. Congress. |
| 1961 | Greece |
| 1961 | Japan |
| 1966 | Canada |
| 1973 | Denmark |
| 1974 | Australia |
| 1978 | Italy |
| 1979 | Portugal |
| 1986 | Spain |
| 1991 | United States - CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT |
| 1994 | United States - CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT Proposed by the President. Strong public support, but failed in the U.S. Congress. |
| 1995 | Taiwan |
| 1996 | South Africa |
| 2003 | United States -
CONGRESS FAILED TO PROTECT MEDICARE CONGRESS STARTED DISMANTLING our NON-PROFIT MEDICARE BY TAKING STEPS TO PRIVATIZE IT U.S. Congress added privatization to Medicare via Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare Part D |
| 2006 | United States - CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT |
| 2009 | United States -
CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT President and key members of Congress not only failed to act, but even took a combination of actions and inaction that forcibly rejected consideration of single-payer, Medicare for All. |
| 2010 The Current Status |
United States -
CONGRESS IS PREPARING TO MAKE SITUATION MUCH WORSE
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| 2010 | United States - |
U.S. participation requires thousands of citizens to communicate to their U.S. Representative OR expect the most likely outcome to happen.
You can request e-mail reminders or telephone reminders to help you do ONE communication to ONE person each month … to your U.S. Representative (and optionally to your U.S. Senators and the U.S. President) … to help the activity of getting enough supporters for H.R. 676 to become law in order to to save businesses, save jobs, improve health, save lives and save money.
U.S. Inaction and Wrong Direction
- As seen in the tables of information below, other countries have implemented non-profit financing of health care over the last 100 years, especially during the last 50-60 years.
- The United States Congress decided to NOT act on this critical topic multiple times. Therefore, the bureaucracy remains in the U.S. that could have been eliminated.
- The U.S. Congress decided to take the wrong direction. That wrong direction is scheduled to proceed further in 2010.
The Result: Continued Significant Contribution
to Economic Problems
- The result has been and continues to be a loss of businesses for the country and job losses for U.S. workers.
- For decades companies have been intensely looking for cost-efficiency within how a country operates. The U.S. fails to provide that efficiency regarding health care.
- Other countries have low-cost administration of health care financing. The United States has high-cost administration of health care financing, failing to achieve improved efficiency.
Most Likely Outcome
unless we communicate
to our U.S. Representatives
Following are the two most likely outcomes for U.S. Health Care in 2009-2010
One or both of the following outcomes will occur unless citizens in each U.S. Congressional District are diligent about communicating to their U.S. Representatives, such as getting reminders to get what other industrialized countries have to a MUCH greater extent than the U.S.: non-profit financing of health care.
Possible for 2009: establishment of a law that will make things worse.
- U.S. politicians and their staffs and well-financed supporters are working hard and fast to establish a law that will be the OPPOSITE of what we want and need, as indicated at this web page.
Scheduled for 2010: further privatization of Medicare
- The wrong direction.
It’s Time to Communicate!
As a result of the details of current ideas and plans, all citizens’ taxes AND health care premiums would rise dramatically!! Both major political parties are against non-profit financing again, but now it’s worse than ever before!
As indicated by the failure of the U.S. Congress to make this improvement in our society, BOTH major political parties have been against our best economic interests for almost 75 years!. But they all want our votes in the next election! We must communicate to ALL of them to get their strong support for non-profit financing of health care, especially the BEST version of it: non-profit single-payer national health insurance.
WE CITIZENS MUST COMMUNICATE TO CONGRESS THAT WE WANT THEM TO ACT IN SUPPORT OF CITIZENS AND THE ECONOMY! It’s time for both major political parties to support what we want and what we need … instead of acting against the best interests of us and the country like they’ve done for almost 75 years!
Additional Information
Obama’s specific words of his requirement are documented here.
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