A graph from wikipedia. Blue is single-payer universal health care. Green is public universal health care through other means and grey is fucked.
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6 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.I’m all for single payer tax funded universal health care, but I have to say that this graphic is not really honest, or perhaps more accurately, relevant to the argument. That’s because it correlates geographical area to single-payer universal health care. Does that make sense? No.
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A better graphic would use population. But that would not support the argument for single-payer universal care, as this graphic SEEMS to do. But thinking about it some more, even a corrected graphic would not be a good argument. Because what in essence is the argument that both graphics would rest upon? That: Because other people (a lot of other people) have it, then we should have it too? Sorry, this does not follow. After all, lot of people are hungry too.
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Luckily the argument for single payer tax funded universal health care can be made without resorting to the type of argument put forth by this graphic. I think we should stick to those rather than muddying the issue with invalid ones.
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Except I’m not sure it’s ‘trying’ to make any such argument. What it does illustrate is that the US default position that socialized medicine is radical is a little absurd: in all the developed world, it’s the norm.
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Pakistan has public health care, people. Pakistan!
Brazil? Oh god.
Even those backward-ass chumps… New Zealand!
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As a veteran, I get (relatively) free socialized health care for life! Woo Hoo! I get the doctors of one of the best medical schools in the world, UCSF, giving me the care that I need. For life, baby!
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Looks like all those right wingers who say that they will leave the country is we pass health care reform will have a lot of choices – in Africa.
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Argh. Single payer health care is not socialised – the insurance industries are heavily REGULATED like they once were before the Reagan-Bush era. Our health care system was wonderful 20 some years ago – it was the creation and legislation allowing HMO’s and deregulation of the insurance industry that has created the current “crisis”. It’s all about greed. Period.
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