Friday, September 16, 2011

Dying To See a Doctor

Official estimates by the Census Bureau showing an increase of about 1 million in the number of Americans without health insurance in 2010 – to a 35-year high of 49.9 million persons, or 16.3 percent of the population, under the bureau’s revised calculation method – underscore the urgency of going beyond the Obama administration’s federal health law and swiftly implementing a single-payer, improved Medicare-for-all program, spokespersons for Physicians for a National Health Program said today.
~ from Number of Uninsured Climbs to Highest Figure Since Passage of Medicare, Medicaid by the Physicians for a National Health Program ~
Every time new figures like these are released, I just wait for conservatives to tell us how the US health care system is the envy of the world! No other industrialized nation covers so few of its people. Why would almost anyone envy a system that leaves 16 out of every 100 people to fend for themselves?

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