POL 536 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Health Care Reform, American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009, A New Era
6 Feb 2018
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12. 4% uninsured: lower-middle-wage earners in the next to bottom fifth have gone from <10% uninsured to. It"s also worrisome that the u. s. spends so much considering all other industrial nations provide their entire populations with health coverage, in a variety of different ways: the advanced technology can raise costs since used wastefully. U. s. pharmaceutical giants came up with new profitable drugs protected by us patents: basically, after wwii, the us government encouraged innovative, profitable health care while leaving many citizens without coverage. From then on, special interests & more privileged citizens didn"t need to ally with those left uninsured because they could get more without them. From 1946-1960s it looked like things may work out, with growing proportions of middle-class. Medicare insurance program covering much of the expense of physician & hospital care for the retired elderly, along with the federal-state medicare program, covering some of the very poor, especially nonworking mothers & their children.
