US/healthcare

page type::article subject::healthcare in the United States of America

About
Unlike many other developed countries, the 🇺🇸 has no comprehensive national health care system. Health insurance is largely tied to employment in that employer subsidies are necessary in order to make health insurance affordable for most people.

There have been at least two major /reform efforts.

Reference

 * Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States
 * (mostly about US): claims that Obamacare is a universal healthcare system
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 * lessigwiki:Medicine: A collection of references on medicine in the US - must-reads, to-research, and examples of systemic corruption
 * lessigwiki:Medicine: A collection of references on medicine in the US - must-reads, to-research, and examples of systemic corruption

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 * 2012-12-10 New Trend In Health Insurance: Low-Cost Concierge Medicine: audio with summary
 * 2012-11-29 Is Concierge Medicine the Future of Health Care?