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Correction: Looking Back name wrong

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You've got to provide links to substantiate your own claims. That's the way debate works.

I did google "NPR France Health Care" - and - sorry to say - no indication, nor stories of your cries of impending doom.

But I will grant you that they are now spending 10.7% GDP on health care - still far below our cost to care for everyone.

Here's an article that was just published two days ago: U.S. would be wise in emulating health care system in France

BY DR. JOHN MORLEY | Posted: Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:15 am

"As Congress and its super committee try to work out how to cut the deficit, I would suggest a quick visit to France. France has been ranked as having the best health care system in the world, while the United States was ranked 37th. The ranking is all the more surprising because the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care and, by comparison, France spends a mere 10.7 percent. While France has universal health care, patients have their choice of doctors and if they pay a premium, can self refer to a specialist of their choice. People who have chronic diseases, which makes their medical care expensive, have 100 percent of their medical expenses paid for. The French are much happier with their health care system than we are in the United States. The most magnificent component of the French medical system is the "Carte Vitale." This looks like a credit card and is given to the physician by the patient. It is inserted into a computer allowing the physician to review the patient's basic medical history and is also used for billing the patients visit to the government. The patient thus controls his or her own health records, maintaining privacy. France has shown that universal health care can be affordable and of high quality. Hopefully, Congress will realize that their 'slash and burn" approach will in the end cost more than developing a civilized health care system. We should take a lesson from the French.

Single Payer Universal Health Care for All Pennsylvanians |

Pennsylvania is on the threshold of breaking new ground because of her Single Payer Universal Health Care initiative, HB 1660 and SB 300, which, if passed, will make health care available to every Pennsylvanian.

Health Care For All PA is taking this initiative to the next level, which I will explain shortly.

Meanwhile, the press ignores these Bills.

Meanwhile, the HighMark/Independent Blue Cross (IBX) merger is building its case.

Meanwhile, Governor Rendell plans to pass PA ABC which will cover only 200,000 Pennsylvanians, out of the 1.4 million who currently have no health insurance at all.

This will make a bad situation much, much worse here in the Commonwealth.

But no matter how media and corporate monopolies ignore the inevitable, we are heading toward Single Payer one way or the other.

Single Payer is publically funded while the Blues are privately funded.

The insurance companies compete against the for profit powers represented by Aetna and United and all the rest while Single Payer is designed for the public good.

One enriches shareholders and an elite few while the other is designed to provide quality, affordable health care for everyone here in Pennsylvania.

The IBX/Highmark merger has prompted concern among critics about competition in the insurance market and clout the new company would wield in setting reimbursement rates for hospitals and doctors, an article in Pittsburgh’s “Business Times”, May 26, 2008 states.

The consolidation of IBX and Highmark is the largest insurance company deal ever proposed within any state and will create a billion dollar company.

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Our grassroots group, Health Care 4 All PA, supports Single Payer because it’s the best way to fulfill our mission: to bring quality, affordable health care to all Pennsylvanians.

We’ve decided to protest the merger because it runs counter to our mission.

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