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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
The U.S. Government’s own report was provided to the U.S. Congress. That report is one of many economic studies, governmental and private, which document clearly that the U.S. and its citizens would benefit from non-profit financing of health care.

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
Overwhelming support expressed by citizens for non-profit financing of health care. The final report went to the U.S. Congress on September 29, 2006. This report was the culmination of effort by the U.S. Congress own citizens working group. The group conducted meetings for over 15 months across the country.

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
In March 2010 U.S. President Barack_Obama signed into law the act that will help some people, while making things worse for the country. Both taxes and health insurance premiums will rise. The health care reform will MAINTAIN and EXPAND the health insurance companies’ bureaucracy and will definitely EXPAND the government bureaucracy Our health care premiums and out-of-pocket costs and our taxes will rise significantly from this legislation. See the information about this so-called “reform”. And see specifics about the March 2010 law here.

However, we can still follow Barack Obama’s April 3, 2007 that we send a thousand to two thousand letters from all the 435 U.S. Congressional Districts.
We can sign up to participate in a 10-15 minute per month activity of sending letters each month as our numbers grow across the 435 districts.

 

Additional Information

See a comparison of the United States relative to six countries.

 

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