Issue:
Health Care & Health Insurance
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Health
Care In The United States The U.S. spends more on health care, both
as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) and on
a per-capita basis, than any other nation in the world.
According to the Institute of Medicine of
the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. is the only
wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal
health care system.
Americans without health insurance coverage
at some time during 2006 totaled about 16% of the population,
or 47 million people.
The debate about U.S. health care concerns
questions of access, efficiency, and quality purchased
by the high sums spent.
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more about our health care system... ]
- Health
Care Providers
- Health
Care Services
- Health
Care Facilities
- Health
Care Spending
- Health
Care Payments
- Health
Care System Effectiveness
- Health
Care Inequities
- Racism
& Health
- Prescription
Drugs
Source:
Wikipedia
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Health
Insurance In The United States
The term health insurance
is commonly used in the United States to describe any
program that helps
pay for medical expenses, whether through privately purchased
insurance, social insurance or a non-insurance social welfare
program funded by the government. Synonyms for this
usage include "health coverage," "health
care coverage" and "health benefits."
According to the United States Census Bureau,
approximately 84% of Americans have health insurance; some
60% obtain it through an employer, while about 9% purchase
it directly.
In 2006, there were 47 million people in
the US (16% of the population) who were without health
insurance for at least part of that year. [ learn
more about our health insurance system... ]
- Public
Health Care
- Private
Health Care
- Employer
Sponsored
- Individually
Purchased
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Military
Health Benefits
- Supplemental
Coverage
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