Public Opinion of Healthcare

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This paper discusses what the public thinks about the healthcare system in the United States today. The writer notes that the public has expressed dissatisfaction with the healthcare system in the United States for many years, but remains divided over what to do to repair it. The writer points out that dissatisfaction arises from rapidly rising costs, concern about a lack of choice, issue of control, difficulties with insurance carriers, the rise of HMOs (which make many of these issues worse for patients) and similar matters.

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"When the Clintons attempted to create some sort of national health care system in the 1990s, the effort was rebuffed, though it is not clear if that was because the proposals were too radical or because they were made to seem that way because they emanated from two such polarizing figures. What has been done since to address the mater has been too little, and few see the problem as improving on its own."

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