The feel-bad, unsustainable cost of US healthcare as % of GDP US: 17.1% France 11.7% Germany 11.3% Canada 10.9% Australia 9.4% UK: 9.1%
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Are internat'l comparisons of US healthcare costs just "apples & oranges"? Yes: fruits of similar shape, nutritional value, cost–COMPARABLE.
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For-profit healthcare costs helluva lot more–please don't tell anyone. Source: World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS …https://twitter.com/ChMadar/status/741981185002373120 …
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what you mean having just one administrative system involves less overhead than having 247? Who'd have imagined?
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Weird, I know!
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I'm pro single payer but Sander's numbers were garbage & he knew it. Almost like politicians lie during campaigns. Obama didn't
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I tweet this less to defend Sanders than to attack the notion that single payer is on its face "economically unsustainable."
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@davidgraeber@nytimes u should think up a new term. Socialized medicine sounds like that day and a half at the dmv -
I hearya but better I think to proudly own it, reclaim it, than cook up some new focus group-tested label.
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don't focus group it, just run it by me
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@davidgraeber@nytimes Depends on perspective. It's economically unsustainable for the oligarchs.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@davidgraeber@nytimes Where would the US dollar as reserve currency be then? 2/2Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@davidgraeber@nytimes They're so unsustainable that in EU we've got them since our troops run in freakin pickelhauben.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@davidgraeber@nytimes If USA fixed its health care system and stopped war / spy the GDP would drop so far China would be #1 (1/2)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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