What is the best health care option?
You’ve already heard what we have to say on this. If you missed it, check the list of related links, and you’ll surely get there. We’ve decided to put some other voices out there via video so you can watch or listen on your way to work or whenever.
We don’t always agree entirely with the conclusions drawn by these speakers. We’ve made no bones about favoring a single-payer system, because we believe it would be the cheapest way to cover everyone and cover them well. Nevertheless, there are arguments for other systems worth hearing.
This segment is entitled, “What is the best healthcare option?”
Interviews with John McCain and Joe Lieberman about the public option in healthcare:
Keith Olbermann discusses health care reform, interviews Bill Maher:
And finally, you’ve heard lots about the French healthcare system in speeches, particularly speeches by Republicans, who love to dump on the French system, which costs less than half what ours does per person.
But do you (or they, for that matter) know anything about it? We thought not.
We were surprised too when we saw this video, which was produced for CBS. Whatever you thought the French system was like, we suspect the truth will surprise you. The numbers for U.S. healthcare here are a bit dated (figures for the U.S. currently exceed $7,000 per person annually in the U.S., which is more than twice the $3,400 quoted annually here for the French. However, the last figures we found for both countries at the same time had U.S. cost just shy of double the French cost, so the figures used in this video seem reasonable).
Don’t forget to use the Comments area below to share your ideas and reactions, whatever they may be.
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September 16th, 2009 at 10:51 pm