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(This article is about political movements affecting the delivery of health care and health care systems. For more information about movements to improve health, see Health reform.) (This article is about movements to improve health. ...
Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major policy changes--for the most part, governmental policy changes--to any existing healthcare system in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to: A healthcare system is the organization by which health care is provided. ...
- Broaden the population covered by private or public health insurance
- Broaden the choice of health care providers
- Improve the access to health care specialists
- Improve the quality of health care
- Decrease the cost of health care
- Decrease the cost of health insurance
In the United Kingdom a massive programme of attempted reform of the British National Health Service has begun. In the United States, health care reform was a major concern of the Clinton administration headed up by First Lady Hillary Clinton; however, her complex proposal was not enacted into law. More recently, President George W. Bush signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act which included a prescription drug plan [1] for elderly and disabled Americans. U.S. efforts to achieve universal coverage began with Theodore Roosevelt and continue to today. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ...
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly_funded healthcare system of the United Kingdom. ...
Order: 42nd President Term of Office: January 20, 1993–January 20, 2001 Preceded by: George H. W. Bush Succeeded by: George W. Bush Date of birth: August 19, 1946 Place of birth: Hope, Arkansas Date of death: Place of death: First Lady: Hillary Rodham Clinton Political party: Democratic Vice President...
Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ...
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ...
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Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ...
The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ...
As evidenced by the large variety of different health care systems seen across the world, there are several different pathways that a country could take when thinking about reform. Germany for instance, makes use of sickness funds, which citizens are obliged to join but are able to opt out (Belien 87). The Netherlands uses a similar system but the financial threshold for opting out is lower (Belien 89). The Swiss, on the other hand use more of a privately based health insurance system where citizens are risk-rated by age and sex, among other factors (Belien 90). The United States employs a system in which the government does not provide health insurance to all of its citizens.
When the health care expenditures per capita and GDP per capita for developed countries are graphed, a nearly linear relationship is revealed, with the United States the clear outlier[1]. In statistics, an outlier is a single observation far away from the rest of the data. ...
References - Belien, Paul. "Healthcare Systems - A New European Model?" PharmacoEconomics. Vol 18, supplement 1, (2000). 85-93.
See also (This article is about movements to improve health. ...
External links - Health in transition countries - a dossier
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