In United States, health care was the largest industry in 2006. It provided 14 million jobs—13.6 million jobs for wage and salary workers and about 438,000 jobs for the self-employed.
The U.S. is one of the world's few industrialized nations that does not guarantee access to health care. In the United States, around 84% of citizens have health insurance, either through their employer (60%), purchased individually (9%), or provided by government programs.
The US health care has now turned out to be a dysfunctional mess. About 45 million people do not have health insurance as they don't have the funds to pay the premiums. There is a growing consensus in America that time has come for a change to move away from the special interest groups like the insurance companies and drug companies who influence public policy.
On the presidential campaign trail Democratic contenders (shown in the video below) have spoken about introducing universal health care plans focusing on cutting costs via better access to preventive medicine.
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The U.S. health care system is the best in the world except when your death can be prevented by access
to timely and effective health care.
This debate has been ongoing for quite a while now. This shows how important it is to not let private companies get a firm grip on health care.
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