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Selected Books on the Subject of Health Care

"The Big Three Unresolved Issues that neither party has much to say about
[are] jobs, education, and health care." — columnist Marc Cooper

"Health care premiums have gone up 90% in the last six years." — John Edwards

"The United States currently spends 16% of its gross domestic product on health care."
— The Atlantic Monthly, June 2006

"If you count the cost of healthcare as a tax, Americans are the highest-taxed country in the world."
— caller Brian on the Bill Press radio show (in 2007)

Links

HR 676 Medicare for All Act {introduced Jan 2007}
Single Payer Now! [est. 1994] in California
American Association for Health Freedom [est. 1992]
Physicians For Social Responsibility [est. 1961]
A.M.A.'s 'Voice For The Uninsured' program
Drug Policy Alliance [est. 2000]
NurseCorner "To uphold the ideals of nursing" [est. 1/2008]
Defective Drugs information website
pro-choice Trust Women PAC [est. 2009]
free 'Lab Test Interpreter' at About.com
National Committee To Preserve Social Security & Medicare [est. 1982]
American Lung Assn. [est. 1904, renamed 1973]
Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy [est. 1975]

Selected Books on the Subject of Health Care

Selected Movies on the Subject of Health Care

Natural  Healing
Treating Yourself: Medical Marijuana & Hemp Expo [June 2011 = #2] in Toronto, Canada
Medical Marijuana & Natural Healing Expo [July 2011 = #1] in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Medical Marijuana Expo [July 2011 = #2] in Anaheim, California
Maine Cannabis Expo [April 2012 = #2] in Augusta, Maine

"Prescription Pot: A Leading Advocate's Heroic Battle To Legalize Medical Mar*juana" [2003] by George McMahon & Christopher Largen New Horizon Press 8¾x6 pb [9/2003] for $14.95

"Grass" documentary film [2000] directed by Ron Mann
http://www.amazon.com/Grass-Woody-Harrelson/dp/B0000633SE/

News Items

Ian Williams, in The Washington Spectator June 2008           In 2005, Taiwan's successful and efficient single-payer health care system cost 6.2% of G.D.P. compared with 16.2% for the U.S. In 2003, Taiwan spent less than $800 per person for health care, compared with a U.S. level of approximately $5,500. (By 2005, U.S. health care spending had increased 6.9% to $6,697 per person.)

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