Global push to guarantee universal health coverage leaves US behind

can have a great Health Care system in this country. At this moment, and for as long as I can remember our Health Care has sucked big time compared to most of the developed world.

Article 31 in the US-imposed constitution gives broad coverage for all citizens of Iraq, and this was written by the Bush junta, later ratified by the Iraqi people.

In GOP world, we're just not entitled to modern health coverage like the rest of the world. We should just eat our peas.

Everybody knows we need a public plan like at least a Canadian-style system, if not a UK-style system, at least as an option for people to choose.

Yet we simply can't have it because the strangle hold of big money over our government is too great. Not even as an option for people to choose if they wish.

I hope some day we will get there. I would like to see us revisit the public option in Obama's second term. The President seems to have found some new courage and clarity recently, speaking clearly that gay people should be able to get married.

Stong leader, that's good. I hope he is able to find some similar courage on this health care issue and make a clear statement that access to high quality health care ought to be a basic right in America.

It's truly disgraceful to think some of these underdevloped "third world" countries might actually start passing us up on health care outcomes. And all because we're so determined that nobody should get anything for free, and that nothing has any real value unless some person or corporation profits from it.

have its role in everything even when it does not work.

I mean, do they use the Bismarck model, the NHI model, the Beveridge model, or some hybrid of the above?

China will invest much more in government clinics. Poor coutnries will start with just the basics. Single payer has been the model chosen by developing countries since the 80s.