As the debate regarding health care reform takes shape in Congress, we can expect the usual canard to come from the foes of any public option: universal health care is a socialist spawned disaster that will be the undoing of us all. The United States of America is the only industrialized country which does not have some form of public health care regime (be it a mandatory universal plan, or a coexisting public option). Not so coincidentally, the USA is also the industrialized country that spends the greatest share of its GDP on healthcare.
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