What Would a Single Payer Universal Health Care System Look Like?
(this section is largely drawn from PNHP; a paper by John R. Battista, M.D. and Justine McCabe, Ph.D.;) The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship. 28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems, while 1 (Germany) has a multipayer universal health care system like President Clinton proposed for the United States. The United States ranks poorly relative to other industrialized nations in health care despite having the best trained health care providers and the best medical infrastructure of any industrialized nation. The World Health Organizations ranks the US 37th in terms of overall quality of our health care system – and we’re getting worse. The United States ranks 23rd in infant mortality, down from 12th in 1960 and 21st in 1990. The United States ranks 20th in life expectancy for women down from 1st in 1945 and 13th in 1960. The United States ranks 21st in life expectancy for
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