Best of All Possible Health Care Systems

For several months now I have been hearing people say, “Why do they want to ruin the best health care system in the world?” After looking at some statistics about health care around the world I am not entirely certain what “best” means in this context. Below are statistics for four possible measures — life [...]

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Health Care Reform History Lesson

Here’s an interesting editorial from the Charleston (WV) Gazette on the history of attempts to bring universal health care to the United States. For fuller details, see the article “Health Care Reform and Social Movements in the United States” by Beatrice Hoffman in the January 2003 issue of The American Journal of Public Health. Universal [...]

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Healthcare Reform

This is an important issue. The state of healthcare in the United States has been neglected for much too long. The cost of care increases, driven in part by the expense of providing emergency care for people who lack health insurance and cannot afford basic preventive care. And in the present economy many more are [...]

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