Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)

Juan Cole 06/28/2012

Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states from medicaid expansion could leave millions uninsured.

(From this site, though I made some changes; China, e.g., at least tries to provide health care to its citizens; and Iraq is now on its own).

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page