I believe that providing universal health care should be a policy of the United States. ... If you lose your job in Japan, you do not lose health insurance. ... In order to prevent facts and statistics such as: We have the most expensive per capita system in the entire industrialized world, half of all personal bankruptcies in America are caused by healthcare bills, and 18,000 people DIE every year from lack of health insurance. ... A new law called, " Lamal and/or The sickness" mandated everybody buy insurance while the government pay for the poor. ... If the United States is willin...

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The U.S. voluntary health system, she argues, costs three times as much as a nationalized health insurance program would (Scott, pages 32-33, 1999). A single-payer health insurance program would minimize administrative costs as well. The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) would influence health care companies to upgrade their systems to be as up-to-date as possible and with a uniform system, technology would be top notch. ... Michael Tanner of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation is one of those people. ... The purpose of such research on the United States is to ...

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HEALTHCARE REFORM In the United States, more than forty million people are without health insurance. ... At least twelve million of those without health insurance are children. ... If all insured citizens were more aware of the actions of their HMO, then there would be a decline in the immoral policies. ... However, none of these reforms address the underlying problem: The US healthcare system is driven by giant insurance conglomerates supplemented by an inadequate patchwork of public programs. ... It is not uncommon for people who are insured, to refuse needed medical treatment to avoid the h...

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The Ultimate goal of China's healthcare reform policy is to create afford healthcare for the people by the year of 2020. ... A person who works for a medical provider in China can distribute money to the insurance card from their bank. ... The United Kingdom's health care policy is the National Health Service, which means that people get healthcare based on their problems instead of their ability to pay for healthcare. ... China wants to reform its healthcare policy to make the policy better for the people of China. ...

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