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T.R. Reid: Can We Really Fix U.S. Health Care?

T.R. Reid, Correspondent, The Washington Post; Commentator, National Public Radio; Author, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

For 100 years, U.S. presidents have unsuccessfully strived to provide universal health coverage. When LBJ created Medicare in 1965, he thought the program would gradually be extended to people over 60, then 55, then 45, etc., so that everybody would have government health insurance by 2000. Decades later, the Clinton plan failed. George W. Bush created Medicare Part D. Barack Obama says we have the best chance ever this year to fix our health-care system. Is he right? Reid weighs in and reveals what we can learn from health-care models across the globe.

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  • Essential viewing for all members of congress!

  • Everyone in the U.S. should be required to see this.

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  • What the US needs now is a new system of politics. Ever heard an intelligent conversation about health care from ANY politician?

    Notice that that fourth model actually includes FREE Christian clinics funded by Americans. We can afford to CARE and FUND medical clinics in poor countries and we do.

  • Come on USA, You really need a CHANGE, right now!

    T.R.REID for PRESIDENT!! *****

  • His book is fantastic too!

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  • Sherrod Brown has become an exellent senator.

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