Whatever their faults, single-payer systems using government leverage, like the Canadians' — or Medicare — deliver decent quality care to more people at lower cost.
So Shannon (and those who love her) are very fortunate that she's had access to decent quality care (by American standards), but even despite that, she's been burdened enormously by the difficulties in getting quality rest, the daily struggle for good nutrition, and the bureaucratic nightmare that is the medical insurance industry.
— and as long as I have a voice in the United States Senate, it's going to be for that Democratic platform plank that provides decent quality health care.
He's worked in the NHS for over two decades, so I understood where he was coming from, and how frustrating it must be to feel like you can't provide a decent quality of care because of the sheer volume of people you have to treat.
"And this is the cause of my life, new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American -- north, south, east, west, young, old -- will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege," Kennedy once said.
As long as I'm a vote and as long as I have a voice in the U.S. senate, it's going to be for the democratic platform plan that provides decent quality health care north and south, east and west, for all Americans as a matter of right and not of privilege.
However, capitation contracted model applied by SHI has contained cost in the long run with a decent quality of care [ 17]. "They (hospitals) would be viable when closed-end provider payment is applied.
"He believed that it was a moral issue," she said, "that it defined the character of who we were as a society, who we were as a country, and that decent, quality, affordable health care should be a fundamental right and not a privilege".
How do you cope with the emotional stress of being asked to provide care, but never enough to support a decent quality of life, to whizz in and out to take care of someone's physical needs with so little time it's hard to show them some love?
9 Older adults have a high prevalence of chronic diseases and disability; they are the most dependent age group on medical care for maintaining a decent quality of life, and the heaviest users of medical services.
We were asked twice to continue with palliative care and that she will not have a decent quality of life.
