Improved Medicare For All!

Affordable Care Act

Eliminates preexisting conditions

Adult child on parent’s plan to age 26

Narrows geographic rating for individuals

Expands MediCal to more individuals

What the ACA Doesn’t Do Insure every

American/Californian Allow for choice of

providers (we are still stuck with insurance company networks)

Control escalating costs Stop insurance companies

from profiting from the people who are ill

FR* GER NOR DEN SWIZ SWE AUS* OECD Me-dian

NZ* UK US* NETH CAN*0

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177 170 168 166 162 160142 138 131

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84

Inpatient days per 1,000 Population, 2009

Source: OECD Health Data 2011 (June 2011)

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NETH CAN* UK DEN NZ** SWIZ** US* SWE0

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4

6

8

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14 13.2

8.26.9 6.5 6.3

5.7 5.5 5.0 4.6 4.3 4.0 3.92.9

Average Annual Number of Physician Visits per Capita, 2009

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Average Health Care Spending per Capita, 1980–2009Adjusted for differences in cost of livingDollars

7Health Care Spending per Capita by Source of Funding, 2009Adjusted for Differences in Cost of Living

US NOR SWIZ CAN GER FR SWE UK AUS* NZ JPN*0

1,000

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3,7954,501

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504 646 424 58769 188

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1,568 636 552 291

620 364 627 399 454

Out-of-pocket spendingPrivate spendingPublic spending

* 2008.

Dollars7,960

4,363 4,218 3,978 3,722 3,487 3,4452,8782,983

5,352 5,144

Source: OECD Health Data 2011 (June 2011).

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But… we don’t live as long

OECD, 2008

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indicates the demonstrate the need for Medicare for All: percent of uninsured, children in poverty, number of patients for each physician, etc.

County data can be found at: www.countyhealthrankings.org

What Kind of America?

We have publicly funded military to protect us

We have publicly funded police and fire to keep us safe

Why don’t we have publicly funded healthcare for all

We Need Medicare For All Everyone gets a single

standard of quality care (not just those who can afford it)

Choice of physicians No insurance company

bean counter deciding the care you will have instead of the care you need

Cost control – that’s public

A Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street will generate up

to $350 Billion a year By placing a tiny tax—less

than half of 1%– (50 cents on every $100) on Wall Street trades of stocks, bonds, and other financial transactions

Like the sale tax you pay when buying a pair of shoes

A tax of one-half of one percent (.5) adds up to big money — up to $350 billion a year which would:

Guarantee healthcare for all-

• Help end HIV/AIDS- • Address poverty and

climate change • Stop hunger • $ 9 million new jobs-

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