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Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...
At various times during and after ACA debate Obama said, "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan." [ 384 ] [ 385 ] However, in fall 2013 millions of Americans with individual policies received notices that their insurance plans were terminated, [ 386 ] and several million more risked seeing their current ...
A study published in August 2008 in Health Affairs found that covering all of the uninsured in the US would increase national spending on health care by $122.6 billion, which would represent a 5% increase in health care spending and 0.8% of GDP. "From society's perspective, covering the uninsured is still a good investment.
The catch-22 associated with health insurance — even with subsidies — is that the low-cost plans that most people can afford come with outrageously high deductibles, leaving the policyholder ...
HMOs, which offer managed care within a tight network of health care providers, descended from the prepaid health plans that flourished briefly in the 1910s and 1920s.
Our health care system is just corporate crony socialism disguised as free-market health care. Consider that over 70 percent of American adults, and nearly 40 percent of American children, are ...
Congress, health care providers and other parties to overhaul health system4! Wants Americans to have more control of their health care options5! Proposes shift from employer-based to consumer-based health care6! Proposes making health care more affordable and portable7! Proposes making health care affordable and available without a mandated ...
The U.S. system is often compared with that of its northern neighbor, Canada (see Canadian and American health care systems compared). Canada's system is largely publicly funded. In 2006, Americans spent an estimated US$6,714 per capita on health care, while Canadians spent US$3,678. [108]