The goal is to raise $14m, for purchase, renovations, and operations. The article says that $2m of the $5m is going to be used in a campaign for matching donations. It’s a common tactic to get more people to donate. Even though they already have that money, they aren’t adding it to their total until more people chip in. If it works, it will get them up over $7m.
American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
The six countries have a comparable total population to the US…
This means the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent to provide universal health care coverage to the whole of their population (335 million in total), which is comparable in size to the U.S. population of 331 million.
4 million more people covered for 2/3 the cost, and for what the US government is spending, it’s not even covering the 331 million people in the US.
Describe an episode in the worst possible way
I’ll start: a naked guy complaining to his host that there’s less light than advertised.
Anonymous donor gives over $5 million to effort to save West Newton Cinema (www.wbur.org)
Climate change blamed for worst wine harvest in 62 years (www.euronews.com)
A new report shows where has wine production dried up the most in Europe....
U.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined (www.statnews.com)
American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Holodeck Rhapsody (lemmy.world)