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tazzygirl -> RE: Sen. Rand Paul: Right To Health Care Like Believing In Slavery (5/24/2011 10:34:32 AM)
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Spain included health care into its consitution in 1978.
The universal health care system was adopted in Brazil in 1988 after the end of the military regime's rule. However, free health care was available many years before, in some cities, once the 27th amendment to the 1969 Constitution imposed the duty of applying 6% of their income in healthcare on the municipalities
In 1993 a reform transformed the health care system in Colombia, trying to provide a better, sustainable, health care system and to reach every Colombian citizen.
On December 1, 2006 the Mexican government created the Health Insurance for a New Generation also known as "life insurance for babies".[15][16][17]
On May 16, 2009 Mexico to Achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2011.[18]
On May 28, 2009 Mexico announced Universal Care Coverage for Pregnant Women.[19
On April 2, 2010 President Alan Garcia Perez on Friday signed a supreme ordinance approving the regulations for the framework law on the Universal Health Insurance, which seeks to provide access to quality health care for all Peruvian citizens.
n Israel, the National Health Insurance Law (or National Health Insurance Act) is the legal framework which enables and facilitates basic, compulsory universal health care. The Law was put into effect by the Knesset on January 1, 1995, and was based on recommendations put forward by a National Committee of Inquiry which examined restructuring the health care system in Israel in the late 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care
The list goes on and on. Considering many of these countries are centuries older than the US, I find your comments are a bit presumptuous. We are getting there, it takes time, like it did in Mexico.
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