World View:
Implementation of
health-care-for-all systems
See the worldwide expansion below with a “timeline” (chronological list) of U.S. Congress’ failures to implement health care for all while other countries around the world implemented it and benefited.
Summary
- Other countries 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, 2009, and 2010.
- All other free-market countries have ways to pay for health care that provide health care for everyone. The key element of the other countries is that they have no (or relatively no) use of for-profit health insurance companies. Americans will have that when the United States establishes an improved Medicare for All.
- We can sign up to get an improved Medicare for All.
Worldwide Expansion of
Health-Care-for-All Systems
As you can see by the notes in red, below, the United States has not yet participated in a worldwide movement of implementing health-care-for-all systems. 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 |
| 1972 | 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 an improved Medicare for All via the best solution: single-payer health care. These actions included the removal and arrest of single-payer supporters who voiced their concerns at a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing. |
| 2010 The Current Status |
United States - CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT REJECTED HAVING A HEALTH-CARE-FOR-ALL SYSTEM |
Additional Information
See a comparison of the United States relative to six countries.
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