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Sunday, March 28 from 2-4 p.m. BDBlue is going to lead a discussion of Yves Smith's new book, ECONned. So, buy it, get it from the library, induce your library to buy it, or borrow it.

Per capita health care spending (2007):

United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581

-- Bob Somerby

In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.

* Medicare For All.

In a July 17, 2007, appearance before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Obama said the following: “In my mind, reproductive care is essential care. It is basic care, so it is at the center and at the heart of the plan that I propose. Essentially what we’re doing is, we’re going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don’t have health insurance. It will be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services...

-- Politifact

[In] a story that ran in the Chicago Tribune on July 18, 2007, the day after Obama’s Planned Parenthood speech… Washington bureau reporter Mike Dorning wrote that when Obama was asked about his proposal for expanded access to health insurance, the candidate “said it would cover ‘reproductive health services.’ Contacted afterward, an Obama spokesman said that included abortions.”

-- Politifact

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Health care reform: DCBlogger.

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