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Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care. It is generally organized around providing either all residents or only those who cannot afford on their own, with either health ...
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.
Government-guaranteed health care for all citizens of a country, often called 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 broadly extending access to health care and setting minimum standards.
Senator Nina Turner, national cochair for Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign, writes about the universal programs she’s fighting for as a black woman and as a mother.
In the U.S., having health insurance is necessary, but not sufficient to ensure access to affordable medical care. While the U.S. lacks a universal health care system like those that exist in most ...
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.
[citation needed] Outside the US, the terms most commonly used are universal health care or public health care. [ citation needed ] According to health economist Uwe Reinhardt , "strictly speaking, the term "socialized medicine" should be reserved for health systems in which the government operates the production of health care and provides its ...
Proponents of healthcare reforms involving expansion of government involvement to achieve universal healthcare argue that the need to provide profits to investors in a predominantly free market health system, and the additional administrative spending, tends to drive up costs, leading to more expensive provision. [16]