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Healthy or Wealthy?: The Commodification of Healthcare
Intelligence Squared
The Politics of Public Health Care in the US
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In the UK, we're fortunate to have the National Health Service, or NHS. But I gather that that isn't the case in the US. The vast majority are private hospitals. And there's private hospitals that are non-profit and non-profits are supposed to give care to those who can't afford it so that they don't have to pay taxes as non-profits. It was remarkable to me when researching this book, I didn't even know what public health care really meant. In America, we have pegged health insurance according to work. That has developed that developed from 1945. We recognize that employers should give health care benefits to workers. There is no insurance that takes care of
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