2. U.S. health insurance companies are not covered by anti-trust legislation: they are free to collude on prices and policies. (CBC)
3. The new health care bill will maintain the status quo in place since 1976 for abortions: no federal money can be used to fund them. In any case, you can't get a legal abortion in 87% of the counties in the U.S. (mostly because doctors are afraid to perfom them) and yet 20% more abortions are done in the U.S. than in France, where they are covered under universal health care; twice as many abortions in the U.S. than in Germany. (Huffington, Time)
4. The US spends $7290 per head on health care, the UK spends $2992; infant mortality is 6.7 per 1000 live births in the US, as against 4.8 in the UK (and 3.8 in France); life expectancy is one year less in the US than in the UK, and three years less than in France. (BBC)
