United States Remains Only Major Economic Power Without Universal Health Care

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Health care reform in the United States, save a late coalition-building attempt by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, has been placed in 'File 13,' as they say inside the beltway, as a result of the election of Scott Brown as the 41st -- and filibuster creating -- Republican to the U.S. Senate.

Just say the Republicans have a 41-vote 'majority' now in the U.S. Senate.

As a result, the United States will have spent more than a year of money, energy, and time to achieve very little on the problematic issue of health costs/health insurance. The federal government's bill for Medicare and Medicaid will continue to rise at intolerable rates, private sector premiums will too, and the number of uninsured Americans, already at about 35 million, will continue to rise, as well.

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