World View:
Implementation of
Health Care for All:
Universal Health Care (UHC)
See the worldwide expansion below with a “timeline” (chronological list) of U.S. Congress’ failures to implement health care for all while other free-market countries implemented it and benefited.
Summary
- ALL OTHER free-market countries took action and started the benefits of some kind of universal health care, health care for all. Most of them took that action over 30 years ago.
- In other words, all other free-market countries have ways to pay for health care that provide health care for everyone. A key element of the other countries is that they have simplicity compared to U.S. complexity in how we pay for health care. We will have simplicity when we establish national single-payer health care, improved Medicare for All.
Failures
Failures of the U.S. Congress to implement universal health care
- The U.S. Congress failed to act in
1935, 1948, 1991, 1994, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2010.- See the notes in red in the table below.
Worldwide Implementation 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 some kind of health care for all system. 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!
| Year | PHASE 1 Implementation by Other Free-Market Countries** (not the United States) |
PHASE 2 Implementation by Other Countries around the world |
USA FAILURES TO ACT ... rejections of Universal Health Care (health care for all; single-payer health care, improved Mediare for All) by the United States many times! |
| 1883 | Germany | ||
| 1911 | Switzerland | ||
| 1912 | Norway | ||
| 1935 | United States CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT Proposed by the President. Strong public support, but failed in the U.S. Congress. |
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| 1938 | New Zealand | ||
| 1945 | Belgium | ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ | |
| 1945 | France | TEMPORARY NOTE: THIS IS A NEW COLUMN OF THIS TABLE, which is needed to document the many additional countries around the world that are implementing universal health care; See below for information about several countries. if you want to help add more countries by doing research on them and submitting your research for this web page's benefit, please contact Bob. |
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| 1945 | Poland | ||
| 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. |
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| 1949 | Hungary | ||
| 1961 | Greece | ||
| 1967 | Austria | ||
| 1961 | Japan | ||
| 1966 | Netherlands | ||
| 1970 | Luxembourg | ||
| 1972 | Canada (national hospital insurance established in July 1958) |
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| 1972 | Finland | ||
| 1973 | Denmark | ||
| 1974 | Australia | ||
| 1977 | Ireland | ||
| 1978 | Italy | ||
| 1979 | Portugal | ||
| 1986 | Spain |
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| 1988 | South Korea | ||
| 1990 | Czech Republic | ||
| 1990 | Iceland | ||
| 1991 |
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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. |
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| 1993 | Slovakia | ||
| 1994 | United States CONGRESS FAILED TO ACT Proposed by the President. Strong public support, but failed in the U.S. Congress. |
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| 1995 | Taiwan | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 2002 | Thailand — 2001: national health care policy, the "30-Baht scheme" — 2002: UHC coverage — 2007: UHC without pay |
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| 2003 | South Africa — commitment to health care as a human right: 1996 constitution — National Health Act (No. 61 of 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 |
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| 2006 |
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TEMPORARY NOTE: THIS IS A NEW COLUMN OF THIS TABLE; if you want to help add more countries by doing research about this topic, please contact Bob. ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ |
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. |
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| 2008 | India started its implementation with the National Health Insurance Scheme established in April 2008. |
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| 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. |
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| 2010 |
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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. |
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| 2011 | Mexico: free-market, low-income country member of the OECD |
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| 2012 | Turkey: free-market, low-income country member of the OECD |
** The free-market, industrialized countries that we reference at this website are the 30 that joined the OECD during the time period of 1961 through 2009. See the OECD website to see the current list, because more countries were added since 2009 that we do not report simply due to lack of resources to continue that consumption of time and effort.
Additional Information
See a comparison of the United States relative to six countries.
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