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Health care in wealthy countries

All industrialized nations, with the exception of the United States, implement some form of universal health care.


Universal health care in all wealthy countries (except US)

The main ways universal health care is achieved in wealthy nations include:
•Government run (tax funded) systems, e.g. Britain’s NHS
•Privately run but the government pays most of it, e.g. Canada and France
•Private insurance companies but with regulation and subsidies to ensure universal coverage and non-discrimination by insurance companies (can’t deny based on medical history or existing conditions), e.g. Switzerland

The US and Health Care

The US is the only industrialized country that does not have universal health care for all its citizens.

http://www.globalissues.org/article/774/health-care-around-the-world




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The difference between single payer and mandate
By: zzstar
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Sat, 31 Mar 12 6:50 PM
Msg. 40300 of 65535

It is huge.

Single payer is social medicine. Otoh, the mandate preserves all that we have today. The government is not in the business of healthcare. It only makes some basic rules.

Single payer means wait your turn for medical care. The government does it. It's a disaster.

Unfortunately, the idiots fighting their own republican method of covering everyone, will eventually end up with socialized medicine.


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