Student Health Insurance Japan
About the health Insurance systems of America!?
I’m Japanese students and recently I knew that American health Insurance system is very different from other countries. Most countries including Japan have public systems but America don’t have it.
I’m wondering why American peoples don’t care about it.
I know it involves in American cultures like individualism or the idea of self-help.
But I think to care nation’s health is the most important work for the government.
I would like to hear the ideas American peoples.
Depends on if they have been listening to the lies and half truths spread against the reforms that Obama would like for the USA.
I am always amazed how many Americans seem not to be aware about the real healthcare issues relying instead on FOX and other sources to spread lies about the healthcare system of the USA and those abroad. I mean, if healthcare in nations with universal coverage is so bad, why do they keep it?
Obama wants to make Insurance more available to all and change the system so that it gives the American people value for money [1]. He also wants change so that the Insurance companies find it harder to get out of paying for treatment. The system he is proposing looks similar to that which works in Taiwan where private companies are involved in providing healthcare [2].
Obama campaigned on reforming the healthcare system. He said he wanted to make Insurance more available and he was elected by the American people to do this [3].
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids both for kids aged under one and those under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [4].
FACT – American Insurance companies push up prices and work to stop paying out claims on those they cover [5].
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [6].
That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in any western nation with universal health coverage.
If you do not like the policies that Obama was elected to bring in, he can always be voted out of office in 2012. But if you disagree with the facts, please let me know. I am always willing to learn, but please provide proof. None of those who disagree with me have been able to do that so far.
Theme 8: Tomorrow’s World – Zeitgeist Europe 2010