Senator Shelby is against health care for all Americans

[BirminghamExaminer]

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Senator Richard Shelby (R), Alabama made it into Ed Schultz's "Psycho Talk" when he told Chris Wallace in an interview last weekend that health care reform was a bad idea. First he said it would be the "first step in destroying the best health care system the world has ever known."

Senator Shelby was simply reiterating a common myth that the United States has the best health care in the world. In reality, of the 30 OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) nations, the United States has the highest per-capita total health expenditures and yet the United States ranks only 22nd in life expectancy.

And worse, only Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Mexico have a higher rate of death per 1000 live births than the United States.

As a federal employee, Shelby can choose from a variety of different health insurance plans. If he chooses Alabama Aetna HealthFund, he will pay either $87.71 per month or $67.01 per month. If he chooses Blue Cross Blue Shield, his cost would be either $92.44 or $152.06 a month, depending on which plan he chooses. The government pays the rest of his premium for him.


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