Universal Health Coverage

Universal health coverage is the most powerful unifying single concept that public health has to offer, because you can realize the dream and the aspiration of health for every person - Dr. Margaret Chan

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9 things Americans need to learn from the rest of the world’s health care systems

BY MANY measures the world has never been in better health. Since 2000 the number of children who die before they are five has fallen by almost half, to 5.6m. Life expectancy has reached 71, a gain of five years. More children than ever are vaccinated. Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS are in retreat.

Yet the gap between this progress and the still greater potential that medicine offers has perhaps never been wider. At least half the world is without access to what the World Health Organisation deems essential, including antenatal care, insecticide-treated bednets, screening for cervical cancer and vaccinations against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. Safe, basic surgery is out of…

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  9 things Americans need to learn from the rest of the world’s health care systems

Universal health care is hard, but it should be possible — and eight more things I discovered from visiting other countries.

 Universal health care, worldwide, is within reach

The case for it is a powerful one—including in poor countries.

10 Countries With Universal Health Care Have Freer Economies Than The U.S.

What’s striking about the list is that of the eleven countries ahead of the U.S. in economic freedom, ten have achieved universal coverage. Many Americans on both the right on the left subscribe to the myth that the U.S. has a free-market health care system. It doesn’t. U.S. government entities spend more per-capita on health care than all but two other countries in the world.

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The mission of United States of Care is to ensure that every single American has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need, or income.

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