According to New York Times, nearly 47 million people in the United States, or more than 15 percent of the population, do not have health insurance, up 6.8 million since 2000. They don't have health insurance because they can't afford to pay the premium to take the insurance policy.
While there are many critics of the Oscar winning director Michael Moore's film SICKO, this YouTube talk by Moore on the Capitol Hill does highlight the issues of the American health care system, mainly in the hands of the insurance companies. These insurance companies who provide the health insurance policies are primarily interested in making a profit rather than paying for health care. The less claims they pay (against the insurance policy) the more money they make.
This is a disaster for the world's richest nation- the only super power.
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True.. it is the policy they have embraced... mass privatization kills ordinary folks lives...
Us has been focusing on what people WANT.. not what people NEED.. and it has been the biggest failure in the american health care history...
Hillary has been talking about reforms and i dont see anything that could change things in a near future for the US health system..
Another area of concern is the ever increasing pharmaceutical companies who are on the brink of controlling the health industry....
As far as i know the swedish and the Asutralian model is the most effective.
maldiveshealth. Thanks for comment.
Many developed countries have a universal healthcare system, where care is provided not dependent on the ability to pay. Australian and the Canadian systems are ranked highly.
Singapore uses a more market-based system.They have a national medical savings scheme. 'Medisave' designed to help individuals and their familes hospitalisation expenses.They also have 'medishield' which is a low cost insurance scheme that helps treatment for serious or prolonged illness.
Govt. hospitals have three classes of wards; A,B,&C. The 'C' being heavily subsidised for low income patients. They also have financial assistance schemes. It works for them. They provide high quality care.
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