The petition
Kyle Dylan Conner & Lindsay Reed's Health Care Proposal
1. Every resident of the United States of America must have free, universal health care for life.
2. All health insurance companies must be abolished.
3. Pharmaceutical companies must be strictly regulated like a public utitlity.
FACTS:
- The United States is the only industrialized country in the world without a universal health insurance system.
- In 2006, the U.S. census reported that 46 million Americans (recently revised downward to 45 million) have no health insurance.
- More than 9 million children lack health insurance in America.
- Half of all bankruptcies are caused by medical bills. Three-quarters of those filings are people whith health insurance.
- U.S. health care spending is approximately $2 trillion per year, or $6,697 per person. The United States continues to spend significantly more on health care than other countries in the world.
- A baby born in El Salvador has a better chance of surviving than a baby in Detroit. The infant mortality rate in Detroit is 15.5, compared to El Salvador's rate of 9.7.
- Canadians live three years longer on average then we do.
This petition will be sent to Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Senator Thomas R. Carper, and Representative Michael N. Castle, Representative Robert E. Andrews, Representative Jim Saxton, Senator Patty Murray, Senator Maria Cantwell, Representative Rick R. Larsen, Representative Jim McDermott, and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton.
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