33 Million Americans Still Don’t Have Health Insurance (That's 10% of the population.)

[nationalize the fed]

21. If more Americans knew how other countries dealt with the health care issue

more Americans would be very upset at what we have all been stuck with.

Here's a helpful link:

Health systems by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_systems_by_country

Can you find another country that mandates their citizens to pad the bottom lines of for profit insurance companies yet sticks them with deductibles and co-pays?

Two of the worst things that happened during the health care "debate": Max Baucus (D-INSURANCE) had single payer advocates arrested at a hearing. (search Baucus Raucus Caucus) thereby totally censoring any discussion of such. And then Obama somehow decided to nix the public insurance option, after many promises otherwise.

NY Times Reporter Confirms Obama Made Deal to Kill Public Option

For months I’ve been reporting in The Huffington Post that President Obama made a backroom deal last summer with the for-profit hospital lobby that he would make sure there would be no national public option in the final health reform legislation. (See here, here and here). I’ve been increasingly frustrated that except for an initial story last August in the New York Times, no major media outlet has picked up this important story and investigated further.

Hopefully, that’s changing. On Monday, Ed Shultz interviewed New York Times Washington reporter David Kirkpatrick on his MSNBC TV show, and Kirkpatrick confirmed the existence of the deal. Shultz quoted Chip Kahn, chief lobbyist for the for-profit hospital industry on Kahn’s confidence that the White House would honor the no public option deal, and Kirkpatrick responded:..more
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/ny-times-reporter-confirm_b_500999.html

The US Has the WORST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD, while the CEO's of the now mandated for profit insurance companies make $30,000 AND UP PER DAY


http://blackbarth.com/unitedhealth-group-ceos-compensation-was-66-13-million-last-year/

Obscene and unsustainable. A Grand Ripoff.