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  2. Universal health care - Wikipedia

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    Universal health care is a broad concept that has been implemented in several ways. The common denominator for all such programs is some form of government action aimed at extending access to health care as widely as possible and setting minimum standards. Most implement universal health care through legislation, regulation, and taxation.

  3. Healthcare reform debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This amounted to 15% percent of U.S. GDP in that year, while Canada spent 10%. A study by Harvard Medical School and the Canadian Institute for Health Information determined that some 31% of U.S. health care dollars (more than $1,000 per person per year) went to health care administrative costs. [109]

  4. Healthcare history: How U.S. health coverage got this bad - AOL

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    By the 1994 midterms, any chance of universal health care in America had died. In this case, it wasn't funding but the debate between big and small governments that killed the Clinton reform. It ...

  5. History of health care reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Barack Obama called for universal health care. His health care plan called for the creation of a National Health Insurance Exchange that would include both private insurance plans and a Medicare-like government run option. Coverage would be guaranteed regardless of health status, and premiums would not vary based on health status either.

  6. Opinion: Eric Hovde: Affordable Care Act made health care ...

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    We invited U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde to write a 1,000 word essay outlining how he'd address health care if elected. Here's what he said.

  7. Universal health care in NY? Town hall in Yonkers gauges ...

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    Constituents, legislators, doctors and health care advocates gathered Saturday in Yonkers to discuss the New York Health Act, a bill that would provide "universal health care" for all residents of ...

  8. Universal health care by country - Wikipedia

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    The universal health care system was adopted in Brazil in 1988 after the end of the military dictatorship. However, universal 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. [158]

  9. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A 2009 study done at Harvard Medical School with Cambridge Health Alliance by cofounders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a pro-single payer lobbying group, showed that nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with a lack of patient health insurance. The study also found that uninsured, working Americans have an approximately 40% ...