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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [4][5][6].
25 Oct 2019: Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'.
Exorbitant US medical costs
Return to top. See charts: [7][8].
Life expectancy vs healthcare spending of rich OECD countries. US wastes so much money. See chart source.
- Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. By Max Roser at Our World in Data. Click the sources tab under the chart for info on the countries, healthcare expenditures, and data sources. See the later version of the chart here. Run cursor over graph lines to highlight them there.
18 Sep 2023: Medical debt nearly pushed a Colorado family onto the streets.
15 Feb 2020: Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Unnecessary Deaths Every Year.
15 Feb 2020: American health care system administrative costs are four times higher as a percent of all costs than in Canada's single-payer system.
6 Jan 2020: The High Cost of Having a Baby in America.
2 Jan 2020: US. Big Pharma celebrates new year by raising prices on over 250 drugs.
30 May 2019: Is Medicare for All ‘disruptive’? Not more than medical bankruptcy or death.
15 May 2019: Joe Biden Is Wrong. Businesses Will—and Want to—Pay for Medicare for All.. "We can lower overall health care spending by cutting out a massive intermediary (insurers)". Fortune.
2 May 2019: Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills. Los Angeles Times.
11 Apr 2019: Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills. The Atlantic.
16 Jul 2018: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. New York Times.
26 Mar 2018: Why thousands of Americans Are Risking It and Skipping Health Insurance. Bloomberg News.
Canadian healthcare is cheaper,
and has better health outcomes
List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.
13 Dec 2019: I Have 'Some of the Best' Health Insurance a Union Member Can Get, But I Would Trade It Today for Medicare for All.
22 Nov 2019: What I learned as a Canadian reporting on healthcare in America — and what Americans can learn from Canada.
19 Nov: Americans have questions about Medicare-for-all. Canadians have answers.
Excessive US medical deaths
19 Mar 2022: The South’s health care system is crumbling under Covid-19. Enter Tennessee.
8 Nov 2019: Study: At Least 15,600 Premature Deaths Resulted From GOP Blocking Medicaid Expansion. "Affordable Care Act's (ACA) expansion of Medicaid from 2014 to 2017 saved the lives of at least 19,200 people aged 55 to 64. Meanwhile, state decisions to not expand during that time led to the premature deaths of 15,600 adults in that age group."
7 May: Mothers dying needlessly: CDC says most pregnancy-related deaths can be prevented. USA Today.
Republicans leave children behind
Return to top. Republicans killing more and more children.
19 Dec 2023. Wyden Says GOP Medicaid Purge Puts 'Politics Before Children's Health'.
2 May 2019: Trumpcare: Study: (Republican) Texas rate of uninsured children double national average. Houston Chronicle.
14 Jun 2018: Texans want (Republican) state leaders to do more to solve state’s health care crisis. Houston Chronicle.
US drug company price fixing
12 May 2019: Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices. On 60 Minutes. CBS news. From article: "But 1,215 generics, many of them the most prescribed drugs, jumped on average more than 400 percent in a single year. ... 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in this country are filled with generic drugs."
US doctors support Single Payer
21 Jan 2020: Doctors Are Joining the Fight for Medicare for All. American College of Physicians, representing some 158,000 doctors.
2 Aug 2018. Can a New Generation of Med Students Help Push Medicare for All? By Natalie Shure. Pacific Standard. "Polls show that 56 percent of American doctors now support a single-payer health system, up from 42 percent in 2008."
16 Aug 2017: Doctors Warm To Single-Payer Health Care. By Rachel Bluth. Kaiser Health News
Americans want Medicare For All
| Good idea. % | NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. See July 23, 2019 analysis article. See PDF page 15. "Do you think each of the following is a good idea or a bad idea?" [9]. |
|---|---|
| 70% | "Medicare for all that want it, that is allow all Americans to choose between a national health insurance program or their own private health insurance". |
| 67% | "Government regulation of prescription drug prices". |
| 63% | "A Green New Deal to address climate change by investing government money in green jobs and energy efficient infrastructure". |
| 63% | "Legalizing marijuana nationally". |
| 62% | "A Wealth Tax, that is a higher tax rate on income above one million dollars". |
| 56% | "A national minimum wage of 15 dollars an hour". |
| 53% | "Free college tuition at public colleges or universities". |
2 Jul 2019: Majority Backs ‘Medicare for All’ Replacing Private Plans, if Preferred Providers Stay.
 24 Aug 2018: New Poll Shows 70 Percent of Americans Support Medicare for All (2.3.) Short charts. Canada versus USAReturn to top. Share link: canadacharts. Many nations have better healthcare outcomes than the US. Follow the links.
Videos expose Republican mythsReturn to top. Share link: myths.
Wikipedia: Healthcare in Canada. Videos are also linked from some of the charts below. US. Highest healthcare spendingChart below is a few years old. For latest numbers see tables here:
 Source and comments. From Bernie Sanders Facebook page. High cost of US prescription drugs Source and comments. From Bernie Sanders Facebook page. US health last among 11 nations
Getting divorced to get healthcare
Medicaid expansion saves lives
Cannabis is saferReturn to top. Full site / Mobile. To Top. Or End. Note: This section and the following ones are at: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. See articles: Cannabis is safer. And: See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. Leave event links and compilations at any wiki talk page (no need to log in). Or leave them in posts or comments at Facebook: Global Cannabis March and 420. And: Global Cannabis March in Europe. Or the private GMM group. Especially events outside the US. For any year. See years.
Republican states
Cannabis laws worse in Republican states.
Share link. And mirror. Note the lack of more progressive cannabis laws in US Republican states (in the South for example). It's not just cannabis prohibition. See many US maps showing the failings of Republican states. And mirror. See another cannabis map with more info. [10][11]. Hover to see state names and more info there. See MPP article on state CBD/low THC laws. For laws concerning hemp derivatives see: [12][13][14][15][16].  Wikipedia: Cannabis legality in US
Maps. US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. It's also their higher overdose rates, worse healthcare, lower minimum wages, higher debt, higher murder rates, higher COVID death rates, higher incarceration rates, higher poverty rates, lower percentage of female legislators. Article linked above has many US maps. See Wikipedia: Republican states to see states with Republican governments. See also the page without the cannabis map: Maps showing the many failings of US Republican states.
Minimum wage.
Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. Simultaneous with the Republican-led drug war the GOP used the Senate filibuster to undemocratically severely restrict increases in the minimum wage at the federal level, and in GOP states.
Wage theft. See: Wikipedia: Wage theft. And: Wikipedia: One Fair Wage.
States with tipped workers getting the same minimum wage as everybody else still have plenty of restaurants. Restaurants can't compete based on how small their hourly wage is. Customers no longer need to pay huge tips because workers get a higher hourly wage regardless of tips. Customers can still leave tips, but don't feel extorted. Republican leaders oppose higher minimum wages (of all kinds, but especially for tipped workers) because as pointed out elsewhere on this page, a main goal of the GOP is to concentrate wealth. Besides opposing progressive cannabis laws. From a US Bureau of Labor Statistics page is this wage info:
  One Fair Wage. Progress and organizing map. See JPG file. [1].
GOP blocks healthcare
Canada. Canada. See links. See also: Global Marijuana March Canada. Click to enlarge map:
If only the whole world could be like Canada. Legal cannabis, free universal healthcare, much lower murder rate than the US, higher median wealth per adult. Richer, safer, healthier than the US
See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links and decriminalization. See the utter failure of the US Republican-led drug war and mass incarceration: It is killing Americans at the rate of one Vietnam War every 6 months. There were around 105,400 US drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending February 29, 2024, at a rate of 288 deaths per day. 314 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. See timeline table of yearly overdose deaths by European country.
Harm reduction. Government debt. Share link: Debt ceiling. See: Wikipedia: US debt ceiling. Save $1.5 trillion: Per year in the US via: Single-payer . Republicans oppose single-payer universal healthcare. US would save 1.5 trillion dollars per year if it instituted Canadian universal healthcare. That is 5.4% of US GDP. Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. Former US Lawmaker Finally Enjoys Social Policies He Fought for—In Europe. Medical bankruptcies. See: Health Care Costs Number One Cause of Bankruptcy for American Families. And: Americans have high personal medical debt, unlike Canadians. [21][22][23]. High student debt is another problem Americans have due to Republican politicians. Unlike Canadians. Changing the age of adulthood to 17 would free up a year of education money.   Source and comments. Get JPG file.   US household debt at all time high. By quarters. 1st quarter 2003 to recent times. Chart.
Richer Canadians. US is Broke, not Woke. Healthcare spending and debt ceiling. Many sleepy Americans can't do the math concerning healthcare costs and medical debt. Also, the cost of high incarceration rates due to the GOP-led war on drugs. Also US student debt, and US household debt due to GOP's low minimum wages, etc...   Source and comments. Get JPG file. Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult. Canadians are richer on average than Americans, and they have more energy because Canadians don't have to take 3 jobs, go bankrupt, or sell their homes, due to medical and student debt. See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. See: Student debt balance is forgiven after 15 years payment in Canada.
Healthier Canadians. See: End drug war with universal healthcare and decriminalization. Cannabis is legal across Canada. See Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada.
US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [24][25][26]. Health spending. Republicans are responsible for the large US government deficit. Because they support the wasteful US healthcare system over the much cheaper single-payer universal healthcare in Canada and elsewhere. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
  See more countries. Get PNG file. Poor and sick. Canadians are healthier on average, and their preventive healthcare is much cheaper! Versus US Emergency Room care. See Wikipedia: Health spending as a percent of GDP by country (gross domestic product). And: Wikipedia: List of countries with universal health care.
A war on the poor. US Republicans have led cannabis and drug wars worldwide. All to create poorer 2nd class citizens. They are blocked from many educational, job, and voting opportunities. Part of the conservative plan to concentrate wealth in fewer hands worldwide. And these wars are racist. Wealth concentration
The rich get richer.
USA. The sorry state of the nation. Mar 19, 2024: Sanders, UAW president press harder for shorter workweek. Excerpt: "Today, American workers are more than 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, despite this fact, millions of our people are working longer hours for lower wages," they wrote. "In fact, 28.5 million Americans now work over 60 hours a week and more than half of full-time employees work more than 40 hours a week." After adjusting for inflation, American workers make almost $50 less a week than they did 50 years ago, they said. Top tax rates now favor the rich. The solution is steep progressive taxation: Wikipedia: Progressive tax.
Rich pay few taxes. Making History: U.S. Billionaires Paid Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class. October 10, 2019. On FAIR360.com. Sources listed on graph: Emmanual Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Average effective tax rates of 400 richest families and bottom 50% of US households. 1960-2018. Includes federal, state, and local taxes.   See PNG file. April 15, 2024. Biden: "If Congress enacted President Biden’s tax plan, tens of millions of workers and families would have their taxes cut, nobody making less than $400,000 would pay a penny more in taxes, and the wealthy and big corporations would finally pay their fair share—which would fully pay for the President’s tax cuts and investment agenda."
A global minimum wealth tax. See: The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth. By Robert Reich. Dynasties created by Republican regressive taxation. Google: Buy, Borrow, Die. Tax strategy of the rich to pay few taxes. See Google Images search, too. See the ProPublica video and articles: [29][30]. And other articles: [31][32][33][34].   See JPG file. Jan 24, 2024 article: $8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why 'We Need a Billionaire Income Tax'. EXCERPTS: analysis found that the wealth of America's billionaires and centimillionaires has exploded in recent years as Republicans have enacted massive tax cuts for the rich ... "The cumulative $8.5 trillion of unrealized capital gains held by America's billionaires and centi-millionaires in 2022 has jumped by more than half–or $3.2 trillion–just since the last Fed survey year of 2019," Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice. Genuine democracyVoter suppression. Vote out the many Republicans supporting backward cannabis laws. It is purposely made more difficult by the lack of no-excuse postal voting. Just one example of Republican voter suppression in GOP states. Such as many states in the south.
Lies of GOP radio. Google image search: Top right wing radio hosts. How Fox News and the Right-Wing Media Machine Made My Dad Crazy. Republicans dominate talk radio. Especially in the Republican south with its backward cannabis laws. See Wikipedia: Conservative talk radio. A percentage of people in many states do not have access to broadband internet, and desktop or laptop computers. Cell phones are a poor substitute for many people. So they are left with Republican propaganda radio, its code-word racism, and its constant disinformation.
End the Senate filibuster. What is the filibuster? A look at the Senate’s consequential quirk and debate on its future. USA Today. A minority of Senators (40%) should not be able to block laws supported by the majority of Americans. And rural states have even more disproportionate power. 11 Jan 2021: Mitch McConnell Told To 'Save The Damn Crocodile Tears' After Whining About Voting. "Seems @LeaderMcConnell is weak on the math skills. The Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more Americans than the GOP half." Cannabis would have been rescheduled long ago if not for the Republican filibuster. The War on Cannabis accelerated in the US, and that's where it will end. US Congress could legalize, reschedule, or remove cannabis from the federal schedule if the Republican filibuster were gone. Vote in US Senators who will abolish it. [36][37][38][39]. Senators Manchin or Sinema could abolish it now.   See JPG file.   See JPG file. End the electoral college. Presidents should not be elected who do not receive the highest number of votes. Abolish the electoral college. Imagine the US without the 12 years of the Bush and Trump presidencies and their backward cannabis policies.   See JPG file. Ranked voting. End the Presidential veto. See Wikipedia: Veto power in the United States. Presidents should not make law. Over 50 years ago (on Dec 9, 1971) Republican drug-warrior President Richard Nixon vetoed a comprehensive childcare bill. End veto power!
End Presidential war powers. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush are responsible for the US War on Drugs, and the lie that massive incarceration is a solution. See more lies in Presidents have too much power. Wars later determined to be started based on lies of Presidents, or done in secret: Gaza: Canada vs US. If we had a genuine democracy, then the government would be forced to follow the wishes of the majority of Americans. A national referendum on Israel, for example, would stop its mass murder.   See PNG file. See Gallup Poll article. UN Probe Finds Israel Guilty of 'Extermination,' Torture, and Other War Crimes in Gaza. [40][41]. Biden on Trump: “No one is above the Law;” Except for Israel’s Netanyahu. Wikipedia: Genocide Convention: defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: ...". It also defines: "Complicity in genocide." See: Nearly All 600,000 Kids in Rafah 'Injured, Sick, Malnourished,' Says UNICEF. And: UN Food Chief Says Northern Gaza Suffering 'Full-Blown Famine'. Compare genocidally complicit American politicians' actions to Canada's politicians stopping military aid to genocidal Israel. See Gallup Poll chart higher up showing US change from majority approval (Nov. 2023) to majority disapproval (March 2024) of Israeli military action in Gaza. Source: Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza. March 27, 2024 by Jeffrey M Jones. Gallup Poll. Watch Bernie Sanders video: "Mr. Netanyahu, do not insult the intelligence of the American people." But Congress seems to be controlled by these people: Popular Christian Zionist leader John Hagee is no friend to Israel. "The head of the largest Christian Zionist organization is no friend to Israel — he wants an apocalypse there. ... For 20 years, he has built CUFI into the largest (at 8 million members), most-funded and most powerful 'pro-Israel' organization in America — dwarfing AIPAC, J Street, and others." Some of the same religious right with a history of support for the cannabis and drug wars. Republican senator Lindsey Graham Equates Dropping Nukes on Japan With What Israel Should Do in Gaza: ‘Do Whatever You Have to Do to Survive’. "Reagan ordered a stoppage in 1982 after Israel attacked Palestinian fighters in Lebanon, a move he deployed more than once throughout the war. Ten years later, President George H.W. Bush delayed a $10 billion loan to Israel after the country pressed forward with plans to build settlements in the West Bank." Mandatory retirement. Institute a mandatory retirement age for US Congress members, the President, and Supreme Court judges. Put those judges on fixed terms. [42]. Mandatory retirement exists for many US judges. Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are too old to be President. And Trump is just too dumb: Video: Robert De Niro on Trump Being “So F**king Stupid”. See Robert Reich: Seriously, again, how dumb is Trump? And: Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay. An expert’s view of Trump’s mental slide into dementia.
Global warmingWorld Population Clock: 8 Billion People (LIVE). We need more trees and less people. More oxygen, less carbon dioxide. To slow down global warming. "Assuming no net migration and unchanged mortality, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable population." - Fertility rates. OECD Data. See country graphs. Also, inflation comes from an increasing population sharing one planet's resources. Many US Republican leaders oppose birth control and abortion rights (even early abortion). Another reason besides their backward cannabis laws to vote them out. Birth control and abortion (especially early abortion) is legal (even free) in many countries. That needs to expand further. We need the lowest curve below, by lowering the birth rate. Immigration. The US and Europe can't import all the overpopulation of the world. Europe, especially, is already too densely populated. US Democrats and progressives in Europe need to limit immigration, or they will lose power, and cannabis policies will stagnate under right wing rule. Taxes on the rich will be cut yet more, which by definition means middle class taxes will go up, or stay up, to pay for it. Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density.
Roswell. WarmingRoswell. Carbon-free energy   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: [43][44][45][46][47]. See his documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [48][49]. SG witness testimonies: [50][51][52][53]. National Press Club: 2023. 2001. SG documentaries for free: [54][55][56][57] [58][59][60][61] [62][63][64]. JustWatch: [65][66][67] [68][69][70]. And: [71][72][73][74] [75][76][77][78] [79][80][81][82] [83][84][85]. SG's Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive. [86]. 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: [87][88][89][90] [91][92][93][94][95] [96][97][98][99][100]. See History channel: [101][102][103][104]. National Geographic: [105][106][107][108]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp. See Rendlesham Forest UFO witness interviews. [109]. 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. [110]. 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. [111][112][113] [114][115][116]. Page 54 of Jesse Marcel, Jr. book. Crumple it and it uncrumples without creases. Did not exist in 1947.   See JPG file.   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: [117] (page 14). [118][119][120][121]. 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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