“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

Poverty in America

Robert Reich Explains the Economy

Tea Party Pubic Service Announcement

May 11, 2010

Health Care Reform Index

46.3 million - Number of Americans without health insurance

45,000 - Number of Americans, without health insurance, who die each year due to preventable causes, according to a study by Harvard Medical School

32 million - Number of uninsured Americans who will be able to get health insurance under the new law

45.2 million - Number of older Americans enrolled in Medicare

160.6 million - Number of Americans who get their health insurance through their employer

112.2 million - Number of low and moderate income Americans who will receive subsidies to purchase health insurance

$5,761 - Per capita health care spending in the US, the highest in the world

15 - Per cent of total US GDP spent on health care, the highest in the developed world

6.8 - Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births, highest in the developed world

77 - Life expectancy in the US, ranking fifth in the world

2.3 trillion -Amount spent by Americans on health care in 2007, the last year that statistics are available

390 billion - Amount of savings to be realized by Medicare in the next decade while protecting basic benefits

26 -The age until which children will be able to remain under their parents insurance coverage

143 billion - Amount of deficit reduction in next ten years attributed to health care reform

0 - Number of undocumented immigrants who will be able to purchase health insurance, even with their own money, from the state health care exchanges

0.9 - Per cent increase in Medicare taxes for individuals earning more than $200,000 or couples earning more than $250,000 per year

3.8 - Per cent tax on unearned income for those same high-income earners

100 - Per cent of members of Congress who will be required to purchase health insurance through the state run health exchanges beginning in 2014

1 - Number of western, industrialized countries without universal health care – the United States

0 - Number of Republicans in Congress who voted for health care reform

0 - Distance that health care reform moves the country closer to socialism

1 comment:

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i can't imagine that millions of americans are without healthcare. While millions of dollars worth of weaponry are just being exploded in the sky