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So how did we get here?The first 15 minutes of the segment below will buy you on a historic recap of how America's health insurance system was made and remade. You'll hear Lyndon B. Johnson signing medicare into law in 1965, Bill Clinton asking for Congress' support in fixing a broken healthcare system in 1993, or Obama signing the ACA in 2010.
An Around-the-World Healthcare TourDid you know that Iran is the only country with a legal system of buying and selling organs,which effectively creates a zero-wait-time kidney donor list?Or that Thailand is the gender-affirmation surgery capital of the world?Every day this week, we explored a different healthcare scenario in a different country and asked: how does it compare to America? So what would it be like if you...Needed to recede to the Emergency Room in Sweden?
Were Having a Baby in Norway?
Sought Gender Affirmation Surgery in Thailand?
Needed a Kidney Transplant in Spain?
Wanted Mental Health Care in Japan?
90s Nostalgia of the WeekDo you remember the notorious "Harry and Louise" TV ads? They were launched by the insurance lobbies in response to Bill Clinton's calls for healthcare reform.
While Bill Clinton was pushing for healthcare reform in 1993, or insurance lobbies were running these TV ads. #30Issueshttps://t.co/V8EHMaaVrIApril 28,2016So Why Hasn't America Figured Out Universal Health Care? (And Should It?)Veteran journalist T.
R. Reid thinks that American can get to universal coverage and should be able to cover everybody at a fair cost, but he doesn't believe Washington D.
C. will do it. He thinks it's going to bear to be a state-by-state effort.
If you assume about it, and child labor laws,women's suffrage, legalized marijuana, or many other things began on a state-by-state basis,said Reid. His guess is that universal coverage will start with his home state of Colorado.
Source: wnyc.org