National Health Care Plan in the United States

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This paper discusses the concept of a national health care plan for the United States. It first discusses the current health care situation in the United States and the financial costs that currently exist. The paper then examines how a national health care plan would work and the advantages of such a system over the current health care situation. The writer states her own opinion on the healthcare debate and concludes that one thing remains certain... the larger the number of citizens covered by the health care plan, better for the nation itself, for its tax payers and for the health of its present and future generations.

Table of Contents:
Overview
The Concept of "National Health Care Plan"
What exactly does it mean "National Health Care"?
Advantages
Conclusion
Annex

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"On the other side, experts agree that without imposing a mandate, some 15-26 million people would not be covered , the Clinton campaign putting the same figure at around 15 million people. Obama's argument is that a mandate "might not be enforceable", and that if a health insurance can be afforded and is attractive, most people will surely enroll.
The idea of an individual mandate regarding the national health care system - sustained by Senator Clinton - thus requiring people to get covered by a health insurance - has maybe more chances to reduce the problem of having more people covered, as in general mostly people who expect to get sick are buying coverage and insurers are denying coverage to those that most probably will have high medical costs...
"Additionally, having more people - especially healthy people - enter in the insurance pool, it will be easier to protect people against the risk of high medical costs... which is in fact the main purpose of an insurance policy."

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