Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
Varoufakis about his new book as well as and the weak suffer what they must . europes crisis and americas economic future. He resigned as the greek finance minister last year saying, i shall wear the creditors loathing with pride. But noam chomsky weighs in on first, Bernie Sanders run for the white house. Bernie sanders is an extremely interesting phenomenon. He has mobilized a large number of young people. These and people who are saying, look, were not going to consent anymore. If that turns into a continuing organized, mobilized force, that could change the country. Maybe not for this election, but longerterm. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders says hes cutting hundreds of Campaign Staffers as he concentrates his efforts on the upcoming california primary. The move comes after rival Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in four of the five contests
All legal residents residing in france. It is not, i repeat, it is not an example of socialized medicine like cuba. It is also not a National Health service as in the United States united kingdom. It is also not an instance of a government run Health System like our excellent Veterans Health administration. French National Health insurance in contrast is an example of public, social security, and private Health Care Financing combined with a diverse publicprivate mix in the provision of Health Care Services. The French Health care system reflects three political values embraced by americans. Liberalism in the sense of giving patients free choice of any doctor or any hospital they care to go to, with no networks, no restrictions. Second, pluralism. Everybody has a diverse choice. They can go to feeforservice, solo practitioners. They can go to group practices. They can go to Outpatient Health centers. The computer emergency risk, public or private hospital, consultations with specialist
The issue of wait times, when it comes to emergent care, canadians are not waiting substantially longer than our peers in other countries including the United States. Unfortunately, it was true that has not been the case for medical care such as nondiagnostic imaging. A great deal of work was underway to address this challenge. And indeed, waits have been decreasing over the last decade. It is important to note that moving away from a single payer model would likely exacerbate our wait time challenge rather than alleviate it by drawing Critical Health Human Resources out of the public system. This is bourn out by International Evidence from other jurisdictions such as australia. The canadian system is proof that Public Health Care Insurance need not be provided federally in order to achieve the benefits of the single payer model. In canada, each province provides Public Health Care Insurance to its residents with minimum standards set at the federal level. Furthermore, moving to single
Performance is called avoidable mortality. That is in a Good Health Care system, women should not die in child birth. People should not die of tuberculosis. People should not die of aschemic Heart Disease. People should not die of cancers that can be cured. And when we look at that, im embarrassed to say that we come out in the United States as 19 and the french come out as number 1, i repeat, number 1. That is a fact that cannot be ignored. It must be addressed. It was written up in health affairs, a reputable journal. It was confirmed with different measures by the oecd, and it has not received in my judgment sufficient discussion. Another indicator of how well a system is doing and a theme of this subcommittee that i know is dear to chairman sanders is access to primary care. You can talk about primary care until youre blue in the face, but lets look at the consequences of whether you receive primary care or not in Different Health care systems. We have a very established measure of