As you saw on the map yesterday, Iraq and Afghanistan have universal health coverage provided by United States war funding. In Iraq alone we spent $950 million to establish a universal health care system. The first year after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government Iraq exported $6 billion in crude oil. They couldn’t afford their own universal health care system. Might we be able to afford our own system some day?
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"Iraq’s Medical Meltdown
The bombings are only the beginning of the story. What comes next for Iraq’s wounded is a frightening descent into a rapidly crumbling health-care system.
by Michael Mason"
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/aug/iraq2019s/?searchterm=iraq%20health%20care
I really think we're better off than Iraq.
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