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| Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita |
See also: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian single-payer healthcare versus US healthcare. And: Vote out Taliban Republicans and their cannabis war. And: Canada's murder rate is 1/3 the US rate. Handguns per household by country.
Portugal's drug decriminalization
There were around 96,800 US drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending June 30, 2024, at a rate of 264 deaths per day. 290 deaths per million US population. Only around 10 to 72 total deaths per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001.
Data Shows More U.S. Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Drug Problems. And: 39% of U.S. Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison.
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it." The US Drug War is killing 100,000+ a year in order to save people from drugs. US weapons are destroying Gaza in order to save it. We've been here before. MLK on April 4, 1967:
Martin Luther King’s Most Controversial Speech: "Beyond Vietnam". Assassinated for speaking the truth exactly one year later on April 4, 1968.
USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. From 2016 chart in article (it is higher now). Also, see chart below.
Portugal had 6 overdose deaths per million people.
Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? • AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas. By Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry - July 9, 2017. See chart:
- See: Wikipedia: Health in Portugal and Wikipedia: Drug policy of Portugal. And: Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Also has links about Portugal's drug decriminalization.
8 Aug 2019: British Columbia, Canada. Thousands of B.C. nurses call for the province to save lives by decriminalizing drugs. The Georgia Straight. "Top health officials for Canada’s three largest cities—Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver—have also all stated publicly that they are in favour of ending arrests."
26 Nov 2018: The U.S. Needs to Decriminalize Drug Possession Now. [5]. By Ethan Nadelmann:
| The evidence from Portugal is conclusive. According to João Castel-Branco Goulão, director of Portugal’s drug program since its inception, “there was an average of one overdose death a day in Portugal before drugs were decriminalized, and there were 27 in all of 2016. In 1999, there were 1,793 new cases of HIV among drug users reported in Portugal. In 2016, there were 30. |
17 Jul 2018: British Columbia nurses call on feds to decriminalize drugs as opioid overdoses climb.
16 Jul 2018: Decriminalize all drugs, Toronto health board urges Ottawa. By David Rider. Toronto Star.
26 Apr 2018: Canada. Police chiefs studying decriminalizing drugs as possible solution to opioid crisis.
9 Mar 2018: UK. Policing boss says cannabis should be sold in off-licences. "But he said he believed hard drugs like heroin and cocaine should only be available on prescription from pharmacies."
19 Dec 2017: Norway to decriminalize all drugs, likely following Portugal's model. High Times. [6].
Canadian vs US healthcare
Developed world paying half of what USA spends on healthcare.
Info: [1][2][3][4]. Image source.
Countries spending the most on health care. Nov. 14, 2015. USA Today. Quote:
| "Though the United States spends far more on health care than any other nation, life expectancy of the average American is only 78.8 years, lower than the OECD average and the lowest among the top spending nations." |
- 6 Aug 2021: Stunning new report ranks US dead last in health care among richest countries—despite spending the most. "The U.S. also had the highest infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy at age 60 compared with other countries. ... The poor performance is nothing new, as the U.S. has landed in last place in all seven studies the Commonwealth Fund has released since 2004."
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Gallup poll: Majority in U.S. Support Single Payer Healthcare. May 16, 2016. As do doctors. [9].
Portugal
Portugal. Decriminalizing Drugs: When Free Treatment Replaces Prison. New York Times. By Tina Rosenberg. December 8, 2015.
- Portugal's universal healthcare and harm-reduction drug reform, versus Republican War on Drugs.
Chart: America's Overdose Epidemic In Perspective | Statista. By Niall McCarthy. July 11, 2017.
See source.
Chart: Drug deaths in Europe | Statista. By Martin Armstrong. July 18, 2017.
See source.
More on Canada
Patients can grow their own medical pot in Canada under new rules. [10][11]. August 11, 2016.
Healthcare costs by country
Note the lower healthcare cost per person in Canada for all healthcare costs (public and private):
Above chart is from: US Health Care Spending More than Twice the Average for Developed Countries | Mercatus. Canada's single-payer universal healthcare costs less per person than U.S. healthcare. [12]. For more country info and charts: [13][14].
Chart below is from: Commons:File:OECD health expenditure per capita by country.svg
| President of Physicians for a National Health Program: Single-Payer is The Only System that can Achieve Universal Health Care. |
Trillions of dollars
| Census Data 'Starkly Illustrates' the Time for Single Payer Is Now.. September 13, 2016 by Common Dreams. The failure of private health insurance. |
- Medical Bills Still Take A Big Toll in USA, Even With Insurance. NPR. March 8, 2016.
| Republicans think they can spend an infinite amount of money (many trillions of dollars) on health-insurance-company-based healthcare, and have an infinite number of babies, to feed their appetite for endless ground wars, and for more inmates for more prisons for more drug war. |
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- Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders Have a Barber-Shop Chat About Free Health Care, and Ending The War on Drugs. Youtube. Facebook: ColoradoCare Yes. On ballot in 2016. ColoradoCareYES.co - ColoradoCare would cover all residents and cost less than the current system. One primary payer. Sanders says Clinton fails to mention that 'Medicare for all' (Single Payer) saves families about $5000 a year in premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.
- Medicaid is health overhaul's early success story. Nov. 12, 2013.. And: Jon Stewart Slams 'Moocher' States That Won't Expand Medicaid. Oct. 11, 2013. See: HealthCare.gov.
- 21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare. By Ralph Nader. Nov. 22, 2013. And: People Want Full Medicare for All. By Ralph Nader. Sept. 27, 2013.
| Health insurance paperwork wastes $375 billion yearly! CNBC, Jan 13, 2015. Expand for quotes. |
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| They estimate the cost of covering all of the roughly 40 million Americans still lacking health insurance would be equal to just about half of the $375 billion in projected savings. The balance of those savings, they write, could 'upgrade coverage for the tens of millions who are under-insured'. ... Of the total of $471 billion in BIR [billing and insurance-related costs], an estimated $375 billion—or 80 percent—is 'additional spending' that would be eliminated by 'a simplified financing system' such as single-payer, the report said. |
- See Wikipedia article: Obamacare.
- Healthcare-NOW! - Organizing for a national, single-payer healthcare system. And: Wikipedia.
- Physicians for a National Health Program. And: Wikipedia.
Universal care by country
58 countries with universal health care in 2009, according to Stuckler, et al.[1]
██ 58 countries with legislation mandating universal health care, along with >90% health insurance coverage, and >90% skilled birth attendance.
Universal care. Harm reduction
| Portugal decriminalized drugs (based on harm reduction), and has universal healthcare. |
- Wikipedia: Drug policy of Portugal. And Wikipedia: Health in Portugal. And Wikipedia: Harm reduction.
- See also: Portugal. Cannabis-related links.
- Drug war failure: Greens want Portuguese model in Australia. July 19, 2015.
In the USA the Tea Party should support single-payer Canadian healthcare! It is universal healthcare, and gets better health results on average compared to the US. And it costs less per capita.. Many US physicians support single payer.
Also, the Tea Party should support harm reduction in Portugal. It saves billions of dollars by not putting people in jail for drugs. It saves billions more in court and policing costs.
Universal healthcare is the norm in Europe and is essential to Portugal's decriminalization of drugs.
- How Billie Holiday Was Hunted Down Early in the Drug War. April 9, 2015. From the article:
| "Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes, put a tax on insulin and drove it into the black market, told doctors they couldn’t treat them, ... and then sent them to jail. If we did that, everyone would know we were crazy. Yet we do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs." - Billie Holiday, 1956. |
Majority for Medicare-for-all
- Poll: Majority of Americans Favor Idea of Single-Payer Healthcare System. By Mary Ellen McIntire. December 17, 2015. "Fifty-eight percent of Americans favor the idea of Medicare-for-all, a form of providing universal health insurance, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Thursday."
| Republican Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world. |
| The VA: Another reason for single payer. Physicians for a National Health Program. |
Health administration costs
Obamacare is better than the old healthcare system. Drug rehab for harder drugs is now paid for by Obamacare. It is far cheaper than jail. But Obamacare does not cover everybody because of the incredible waste of health insurance companies. Single-payer covers everybody (including veterans, most of whom are only partially covered by Veterans Administration care).
| Health insurance paperwork wastes $375 billion yearly! CNBC, Jan 13, 2015. Expand for quotes. |
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| They estimate the cost of covering all of the roughly 40 million Americans still lacking health insurance would be equal to just about half of the $375 billion in projected savings. The balance of those savings, they write, could 'upgrade coverage for the tens of millions who are under-insured'. ... Of the total of $471 billion in BIR [billing and insurance-related costs], an estimated $375 billion—or 80 percent—is 'additional spending' that would be eliminated by 'a simplified financing system' such as single-payer, the report said. |
- President of Physicians for a National Health Program: Single-Payer is The Only System that can Achieve Universal Health Care. Jan. 20, 2016. From the article:
"We're talking about an overhead of about less than 3 percent [in Medicare], which is in huge contrast to private insurance companies, which runs in the double digits, often as high as 18 percent."
Single payer is much easier to use (almost no paperwork for patients), is far cheaper per capita [15], and gets better overall health results.
- U.S. Healthcare Ranked Dead Last Compared To 10 Other Countries. June 16, 2014. Forbes: "Many continue to falsely assume that we pay more for healthcare because we get better health (or better health outcomes)." Why Do Other Rich Nations Spend So Much Less on Healthcare? The Atlantic. July 23, 2014. And 200 million claims were denied yearly before Obamacare. [16][17][18][19][20].
62% in 2007 (before the Great Recession). Was 8% in 1981. See the study by Harvard researchers, and more.
Health insurance companies suck money from their hosts, but provide no tangible service. Just like toll-road companies. See: Toll Roads Are A Bad Idea. Both just handle the money, and take a cut of the money. Health insurance companies build costly buildings to house the accounting staff, and claim deniers. Toll companies build costly 16-lane toll plazas, often on expensive urban land.
More in Minnesota have health coverage but still can't afford to be sick. July 26, 2015. "In Minnesota, the share of people with health insurance has climbed to 95 percent from 91 percent since 2013, as the federal Affordable Care Act has taken hold. But insurers such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Medica have competed hard to hold down premiums as more people shopped for coverage; one way to do that is to offer more products with high deductibles and other forms of 'co-insurance.' ... As a result, even those with health insurance can face out-of-pocket costs that run to thousands of dollars, and health care providers, big and small, are seeing more bills that are left unpaid. Court cases filed by health firms seeking repayment have more than doubled since 2005, according to a Star Tribune analysis of state court records."
Doctors hate bureaucracy
- I quit medicine. Here's what future doctors should know going into it. Rachel Kwon. 15 June 2016. The Guardian.
Before Obamacare started
- Patients Mired in Costly Credit From Doctors. Oct. 13, 2013.
- Despite slight drop in uninsured, last year’s figure points to 48,000 preventable deaths: health expert. Sept. 12, 2012. Due to lack of health insurance.
Source document is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services.
Cannabis is safer
Return to top. Full site / Mobile. To Top. Or End. Note: The following sections are at: Cannabis and more. The big picture. On most WeedWiki pages.
See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. Cannabis is just one aspect of the drug war. See also: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
See articles: Cannabis is safer. And: History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects. Note the Republican states (in the South, for example) in the map below.
Wikipedia: Cannabis legality in US
Legal for recreational use
Legal for medical use
No comprehensive medical program
● Decriminalized
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GOP War on Poor
And middle class. Since low minimum wage lowers wages above it too.
"Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll, of Patriotic Millionaires.org - Sep 12, 2024 article. Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires.
| Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. New Hampshire in Senate only. Get PNG map noting GOP states. |
 See Wikimedia SVG map. See PNG map [28] (for Facebook, etc.). |
See many maps showing the failings of Republican states. [29] [30].
| History of the US federal minimum wage. $13.46 inflation-adjusted peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. See Wikimedia GIF chart. |
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Republicans like the current slave labor pay for farmworkers. An expanded guest worker program would give them better pay.
- US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation. Nov 25, 2024. "Nearly half of the nation's approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, ... as well as many dairy and meatpacking workers."
All wealth to top
| Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022. Congressional Budget Office. |
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| Mean household net worth of the bottom 40% is in the red (in debt). See table 1. Image source. On Commons. |
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Tax cuts for rich
Return to top. Trump tax proposals. 2024 election. Average tax changes by income group in 2026. From: A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan. Oct 7, 2024. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Republican states
Return to top. See: US Republican (GOP) states. It is not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps showing the failings of GOP states. & Mirror. Note the states in the South, for example.
In 2024 presidential election only 2 states voted unanimously red (Republican) or blue (Democrat) by county: Massachusetts and Oklahoma. You can google each of the rankings in the image below, and see that they are correct.
2024 election: Oklahoma map. And: Massachusetts map.
Canada vs US GOP
Return to top. Canada has legal recreational and medical cannabis across Canada. Republicans (GOP) block both in US. In Canada the average per-person cost of their single-payer universal healthcare is half that of the US. And Canada has a longer average lifespan.
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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [32][33][34].
Roswell. Warming
Carbon-free energy
See JPG file.
See JPG file.
Share link: Roswell UFO. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer (SG) playlist. SG video channels: [35][36][37][38][39]. See his documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [40][41]. SG witness testimonies: [42][43][44][45]. National Press Club: 2023. 2001. SG documentaries for free: [46][47][48][49] [50][51][52][53] [54][55][56]. JustWatch: [57][58][59] [60][61][62]. And: [63][64][65][66] [67][68][69][70] [71][72][73][74] [75][76][77]. SG's Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive. [78]. See also the David Grusch, David Fravor, and Ryan Graves disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [79][80][81][82] [83][84][85][86][87] [88][89][90][91][92][93]. See History channel: [94][95][96] [97][98][99][100]. National Geographic: [101][102][103][104]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp. See Rendlesham Forest UFO witness interviews. [105].
See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [106]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disk" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005. 37 witnesses to the Roswell shape memory foil. [107][108][109] [110][111][112]. Page 54 of Jesse Marcel, Jr. book. Crumple it and it uncrumples without creases. Did not exist in 1947.
July 8, 1947. See JPG page with full text transcribed.
Walter Haut in 1947. See JPG file.
Affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword. The 20 paragraph affidavit is online here: [113] (page 14). [114][115][116][117].
Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.
Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
Galactic Pot March
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References
- ↑ The political economy of universal health coverage. Background paper for the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, 16–19 November 2010, Montreaux, Switzerland. Pacific Health Summit. National Bureau of Asian Research (November 2010). “Figure 2. Global Prevalence of Universal Health Care in 2009; 58 countries: Andorra, Antigua, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, UAE, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Venezuela.”