Universal Health Care

Editor, Gregg Salisbury

Can a single-payer, universal health care system be implemented and work in the U.S.?

While recent congressional and media attention has been diverted to the insurgency in Iraq abroad and social security reform domestically, the debate over finding a plan for improving equitable access to health care in the United States has quieted.   But the issue remains a sizable one in the United States where well over forty million people live without health insurance.  The U.S. has the only government in the "industrialized world" which does not ensure universal health care to all its citizens, while the nation spends over twice as much per person as the average of the other industrialized nations on health care.

Different levels of managing universal health care have been proposed, from highly controlled government run plans, the extremes of "socialized medicine", to "managed competition" plans such as that proposed by the Clinton administration in 1994.

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