[Peace-discuss] Fw: CLNews: "Happier Babies in France" - NPR

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This is a shocking suprise.

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From: john.grinstead at cfu.net [mailto:john.grinstead at cfu.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:15 AM
Subject: "Happier Babies in France" - NPR

It is truly a different moment in our history when NPR - which is  
typically pretty pro-corporate - runs a program comparing US  
healthcare to the national health care program in **FRANCE**!! I  
almost drove off the road this morning!

http://www.npr.org/

They said no less than 4 times: "France - a country that spends less  
than half of what the US spends on healthcare per person, and covers  
everyone." or words to that effect.

Then they went on to give details about how pregnant mothers in  
binational couples (US-France) were deciding to have their babies in  
France because they were taken care of so much better there and that  
even when they wanted to have their babies in the US, they couldn't  
get health coverage because US health insurance agents were telling  
them that they couldn't insure "a house on fire" (i.e. a pregnant  
woman - because pregnancy is considered a pre-existing condition!)!

I know it's just one program, but others have told me that it's not  
just the auto industry that's panicked about health care costs. It  
seems likely to me that corporate America may have really changed its  
mind about the need to do something drastic with health care.

Best,
John

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