Posted on 05/15/2003 7:29:45 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
Edited on 05/15/2003 7:33:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Why is it so difficult to provide universal health care?
Health care is as frustrating an issue for politicians as it is important to the rest of us. We all know the complaints. At nearly 14 percent of gross domestic product, health care claims almost twice as large a share of the economy in the United States as in Britain or Japan and generally produces no better health results. And for all that money, the number of Americans with health insurance keeps falling. Since 1987, the share of Americans with health coverage, including Medicare and Medicaid, has declined from 87 percent to 85 percent, and setting aside government programs, the share with private health insurance fell from 75.5 percent to less than 71 percent.
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Robert Shapiro was one of about 50 lawyers on the O.J. team. Anyone with a law degree who might have had some knowledge about that case (that strange-looking Kardashian guy, for example) was added to the defense team so they couldn't be called to testify.
Well, there are liars and "damn liars" ... guess which one this author is?
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