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American healthcare: The good, bad, ugly, future

Henry Kotula

And, of course, our world is now better prepared for when the next viral pandemic strikes. Americans today pay twice as much for the same medications as people in Europe largely because of Congressional legislation passed in 2003. bankruptcy.

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Americans Are Warming to Universal Health Care, Kaiser Poll Finds

Health Populi

The first chart notes important nuances under the majority support for a national health plan which, in this case, asked whether people favored a plan “sometimes called ‘Medicare for all.'” ” I note that note all national health plan designs would need to be tied to Medicare. from a low of 10.9

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Will Health Consumers Morph Into Health Citizens? HealthConsuming Explains, Part 5

Health Populi

The last chapter (8) of HealthConsuming considers whether Americans can become “health citizens.” ” “Citizens” in this sense goes back to the Ancient Greeks: I return to Hippocrates, whose name is, of course, the root of The Hippocratic Oath that physicians take. health care system , Gallup learned.