It is beyond belief that a nation as wealthy as the United States does not provide universal health care.
It does not provide universal access, but instead restricts the responsibility of the government to provide subsidised food grain to households on the basis of defined eligibility criteria, estimated to account for two-thirds of the population.
To say, as some of our radio talk-show hosts claim, that the United States has the best health care system in the world at the same time that our country doesn't provide universal health coverage is simply a contradiction in terms.
Others, like economist Jayati Ghosh, say the bill is not enough as it does not provide universal access.
The welfare state, belonging to the so-called Southern-European or Mediterranean model (Esping-Andersen 1990; Gal 2010), does not provide universal or means-tested policies addressed to the most vulnerable households and strongly relies on family ties and intra-families support.
Ultimately the devil will be in the detail but immediately every US based blogger who blogs for a living is going to want to look at whatever they are offering; even if it's a basic healthcare package it's a whole lot better than having no healthcare coverage in country that (unlike most of the rest of the western world) does not provide universal healthcare.
We are the only major industrialized country in the world that does not provide universal health care for all its citizens.
Americans have more student debt than any other country in the world, and the US is one of the only developed countries that does not provide universal — or at least heavily subsidized — higher education.
After months of hearings -- and decades of dithering -- it is time to see if the United States is going to remain the only advanced industrial nation in the world that does not provide universal health care.
Clinton earlier this month began attacking Obama's record in the Illinois State Senate (his "present" votes on abortion and gun control, for example, rather than aye or nay), his health care plan which does not provide universal coverage, and his failure to vote on a key U.S. Senate Iran resolution.
Since public health insurance does not provide universal drug coverage for residents <65 years of age, drug costs are only available for patients >65 years of age.
