[*] A recent University of California, San Francisco, study estimates that the United States would save over $161 billion every year in paperwork alone if it switched to a single-payer system like Canada's.
[*] Research on 38 million adult patients in 26,000 U.S. hospitals revealed that death rates in for-profit hospitals are significantly higher than in nonprofit hospitals: for-profit patients have a 2 percent higher chance of dying in the hospital or within 30 days of discharge.
[*] In the United States, infant mortality rates are 7.1 per 1,000, the highest in the industrialized world -- higher than some of the poorer states in India, for example, which have public health systems in place (at least for mothers and infants).
[*] Among the inner-city poor in the United States, more than 8 percent of mothers receive no prenatal care at all before giving birth.
[*] The overall improvement in health in a society with tax-supported health care translates to better health even for the rich, the group assumed to be the main beneficiaries of the American-style private system.
Now go read this article if your eyes popped open:
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