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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]
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 ...
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." [ 386 ] [ 387 ] However, in fall 2013 millions of Americans with individual policies received notices that their insurance plans were terminated, [ 388 ] and several million more risked seeing their current ...
A 2001 article in the public health journal Health Affairs studied fifty years of American public opinion of various health care plans and concluded that, while there appears to be general support of a "national health care plan," poll respondents "remain satisfied with their current medical arrangements, do not trust the federal government to ...
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.
The health system in the U.S. is failing, a startling new report finds. The U.S. ranks as the worst performer among 10 developed nations in critical areas of health care, including preventing ...
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.
Challenges with the current health care system. A recurring theme throughout the town hall was the obstacles the current health care system creates — not just for patients, but for medical care ...