Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
There is almost complete consensus that this sort of healthcare system would reduce overall costs in the long term while still providing high quality insurance. This happens because a single-payer system:
Angel Maredia • Healthcare, explained by someone who knows nothing about it
Northern and central European countries and some Far East countries also offer a relatively universal level of care provision, and a very high level of risk-pooling, but this is achieved through compulsory social insurance rather than general taxation.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
American fears of continued government expansion and the relative prosperity of the nation have kept the initiation of long-term, large-scale social programs at bay. America has no national family financial allowance and allows more children to remain in poverty than does any other industrialized nation. It offers unmarried mothers less help with d
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