The United States does not have universal health care because no one has ever voted for a government willing to provide it. While Obamacare did reduce the number of Americans without health insurance coverage from 40 million to less than 30 million, Obamacare is not universal healthcare.
How can the USA make universal health care work efficiently and affordably?
Have any American citizens ever been personally denied healthcare in the USA?
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Me, personally. I beat cancer when I was 25 and after that no one would insure me. The only way I made it into my 70s was by way of insurance attached to jobs I hated (when I could have made more freelancing, like I am now that I have Medicare.)
Hi, On what grounds do American conservatives reject universal health care?
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The usual conservative arguments against universal healthcare involve the private sector being more efficient than the government
Why doesn’t the United States of America have universal healthcare?
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Beyond individual and federal costs, other common arguments against universal healthcare include the potential for general system inefficiency, including lengthy wait-times for patients and a hampering of medical entrepreneurship and innovation
Hello, What makes the US healthcare system so expensive?
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The United States healthcare system is complex and most costs are market driven. High, unregulated prescription drug costs and healthcare providers’ salaries rank higher than in other western nations, and hospital care accounts for 31% of the nation’s healthcare
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The United States healthcare system is complex and most costs are market driven. High, unregulated prescription drug costs and healthcare providers’ salaries rank higher than in other western nations, and hospital care accounts for 31% of the nation’s healthcare costs.
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Hello, Should the USA implement single payer universal health care?
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Single payer ends health care rationing based on how much money you have or don’t have. Some of us are forced to make financial decisions when we need health care if we are uninsured or underinsured. We may have to choose between health care and food. Single payer ends these no-win choices.
Hi everyone, Will Americans ever have free health care? How can we go about doing it?
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Of course America will never have free health care. Someone will always be paying for it, one way or another. Just like everywhere else.
Achieving this goal requires us to: Create an effective, grassroots community health system by expanding health clinics, creating other local points of access, focusing on social determinants of health, and addressing gaps in Medicaid.