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This report examines the implications for the Texas health care industry of increased interaction with Mexican medical providers and insurance companies through joint ventures. It provides an overview of the Mexican health care delivery system, an analysis of potential reforms, and the results of a survey of all health insurance companies licensed in Texas on their current and future activity in Mexico…. More >>
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Almost forty million United States citizens do not have access to health care insurance. Many of these are full-time employees or the dependents of full-time employees. Frankie Palmer Albritton discusses this inefficient and inequitable situation in this book. He points out that many of the participants in the health care market, namely physicians and private insurance companies, do not want to see a change in the current market-based health insurance system. Albrit… More >>
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Why is there no national health insurance in the United States of America? This question became popular again when President Bill Clinton’s Health Security Plan of 1993 proved to be a failure. Throughout the twentieth century, every attempt to enact a national health insurance program failed. The majority of the working population is covered by private, employer-based health insurance, the elderly and welfare poor by the government programs Medicare and Medicaid o… More >>
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Expansion of Publicly Funded Health Insurance in the United States introduces the issues, policies, and future concerns of health care within the United States to scholars of social sciences. Through research and outreach projects with the Child Health Insurance Program, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld expresses concerns with the United States health care system with a focus on government regulations in conjunction with the health care of children and less affluent America… More >>
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In the past a family’s chief cost of sickness was loss of the family head’s earning, not expenses for health care. Since there were no government programmes, sickness insurance provided by friendly societies, commercial insurers, and other institutions was important in partially replacing the wage earner’s lost income. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) was the largest social society in Canada and the United States and also the largest provider of sickness … More >>
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Now in paperback, a powerful argument for a new health care system. Polls show Americans increasingly unhappy with our health care system. Yet for nearly thirty years, our next-door neighbor has had a universal, public health insurance system that its citizens hail as their favorite social program. So why can’t it happen here? Universal Health Care explains how it can. Clear and convincing, Universal Health Care shows that health care can be funded from the public p… More >>
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Health Insurance in the United States. History of insurance, Medicare (United States), Medicare Part D, Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Health maintenance organization, Managed care, Disability insurance, Long term care insurance, Medigap, Critical illness insurance, Accidental death and dismemberment insurance, Uninsured in the United States… More >>
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After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insurance – or no insurance – for everyone else.In “Nati… More >>
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