Universal Health Care

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This paper compares the situation in the United States to other countries that do provide comprehensive health care to their citizens, such as Canada, Germany, and Britain. It explains that medical care in the United States is among the most expensive in the world, does not provide much more than similar Western countries, and does not cover the underprivileged.

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"According to Dracup and Bryan-Brown (2003), The New England Journal of Medicine has said, "If we had set out to design the worst system we could imagine, we couldn't have imagined one as bad as we have." The problems are two-fold and related: what health care we have costs too much, and too many people have no health insurance. It seems odd that in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, so many should be without health care. We might assume that those without health care are the poorest in our society, but in fact, 80% of families without coverage have a family member who works, part-time or full-time. One-third of those families have incomes of over $50,000 a year. Often, however, they work for a smaller company that does not provide health insurance. In spite of a good income, one devastating illness could destroy their apparent financial security (Dracup & Bryan-Brown, 2003)."

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