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  2. Public hospital - Wikipedia

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    A public hospital, or government hospital, is a hospital which is government owned and is predominantly funded by the government and operates predominantly off the money that is collected from taxpayers to fund healthcare initiatives. In almost all the developed countries but the United States of America, and in most of the developing countries ...

  3. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [136] [137] Of each dollar spent on healthcare in the US, 31% goes to hospital care, 21% goes to physician/clinical services, 10% to pharmaceuticals, 4% to dental, 6% to nursing homes and 3% to home healthcare, 3% for other retail products, 3% for government public health activities, 7% to administrative costs, 7% to investment, and 6% to other ...

  4. Health care reform - Wikipedia

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    The five control knobs for health-sector reform. In "Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity," [2] Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, and Michael Reich of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health aim to provide decision-makers with tools and frameworks for health care system reform.

  5. More Americans say health care is government responsibility ...

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    Sixty-two percent of Americans say it’s the federal government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has health care coverage, a survey from Gallup found. The figure is the highest it’s been ...

  6. Healthcare reform debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Conservative and libertarian arguments against a government role in healthcare emerged in the 1910s, as public concern was growing about the problems of health care access and high medical costs. In the 1930s, president Franklin D. Roosevelt's legislation for universal health care was vehemently opposed and attacked by the American Medical ...

  7. Healthcare reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare reform in the United States has had a long history.Reforms have often been proposed but have rarely been accomplished. In 2010, landmark reform was passed through two federal statutes: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed March 23, 2010, [1] [2] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (), which amended the PPACA and became law on March ...

  8. Health policy and management - Wikipedia

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    Access to care and Rationing are important dimensions of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) because they address the market force that impacts how and when people get health care services. Rationing in health care occurs due to scarcity; everyone cannot have access to every service and treatment because it would not be an efficient use of ...

  9. Top five ideas to control health care costs

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    Spending on health care is projected to rise from 16% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2007 to 37% by 2050 and 49% by 2082. In other words, if allowed to grow uncontrolled, health care will eat ...