Health care costs in the United States continue to radically exceed those in any other industrialized nation, yet we don’t get better health care outcomes as a result; this, a basic finding of a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. The report found that in 2009 the United States spent nearly $8,000 per capita. That [...]
US Health Care Still Radically More Expensive Yet Not More Effective |
| By: Jon Walker Thursday May 3, 2012 9:11 am |
What Foreign Corporations Will Obama Empower to Undermine Environmental Laws Near You? |
| By: Jane Hamsher Friday April 27, 2012 10:52 am |
Australia New Zealand Brunei Peru Chile Singapore Malaysia The White House wants to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement with Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Japan is waiting in the wings, Canada and Mexico want in, Taiwan has announced its intention to meet membership requirements and China says [...]
It’s a Ripoff! -or- Why America Spends So Much on Health Care |
| By: Jon Walker Thursday April 28, 2011 4:16 pm |
As you can see in this helpful chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation, America pays much more for health care than any other first-world country. There are a lot of false ideas or very minor explanations that are overstated to try to justify why we pay so much. Other countries are just evil nations that [...]



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