Questions tagged [healthcare]
Questions related to the sociopolitical fundamentals of healthcare (i.e. access to healthcare in a given country) regarding the policies regulated and/or supplied by governments.
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Why is the racial health inequality so different in Arkansas particularly wrt Native Americans?
The Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on State Health System Performance rate many metrics for the health system across the US states. One such metric is what rates of preventable death members of ...
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Has there ever been a proposal to have judges who are also doctors to deal with legal cases that are also medicine?
There are occasions where the justice system makes decisions that can be described as being also medical decisions. These range from the high level, such as the general availability of a drug to the ...
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How many times did California lawmakers introduce a universal health care bill?
California lawmakers have once again introduced a universal health
care bill after unsuccessful attempts in the past.
The bill’s latest iteration, formally known as AB 2200, would
establish the ...
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Why doesn't liberal California just implement Universal Healthcare on its own?
California has an overwhelming left-leaning majority that probably loves the idea of universal healthcare. But even if you don't want to take the whole of California (which still has a large ...
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What's causing the long wait times in the Canadian health care system?
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Canadian patients waited longer than ever this year for medical
treatment, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute,
an ...
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What leverage or negotiation tools do government agencies actually have to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with drug companies?
The recent question Why did it take so long for the U.S. government to give Medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with drug companies? reminded me of the old season 8 ...
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How commonplace was treatment of Gazans in Israeli hospitals prior to October 7?
Family members of Hamas leaders (and perhaps also other Gazans) are systematically treated in Israeli hospitals:
Haniyeh's relatives who do not live in Israel or hold Israeli citizenship have also ...
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Under what conditions do governments have a responsibility to curb overpopulation?
Many governments face problems of underreproduction and overreproduction. Some governments promote fertility, such as Japan and Armenia. China famously had a one-child policy to curb fertility.
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Why does the IDF call the surgery department of Al-Shifa the "Qatari Building"?
The IDF says that the Hamas tunnels (they've shown) were located under the "Qatari Building" of the Al-Shifa hospital. Sky News says this is the surgery department of the hospital. Tunnel ...
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What do Libertarians mean when they say that ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), in the long run, leads to fewer people with disabilities employed?
Libertarians sometimes say that laws such as ADA lead, in the long run, to fewer people with disabilities being employed. How can that possibly be true? ADA is essentially saying that companies which ...
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How does healthcare tie to residency and work in rural China?
I know China has "universal healthcare", but I do not understand how Chinese healthcare works. I am told that healthcare in China is regional, and based on residency with the only way out of ...
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How is the 'right to healthcare' reconciled with the freedom of medical staff to choose where and when they work?
Medical staff consisting of doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, etc...
The reason for asking is because there doesn't seem to be any theoretical explanations reconciling these competing rights. (At ...
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Why has US Maternal Mortality data become less accurate in recent years?
There is a recent report from the WHO about Maternal Mortality rate trends in the last 20 years. In this time the global Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR, maternal deaths per 100,000 live births for ...
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Why does France public health system seem to have so many problems despite its rather big financing?
According to this article, France public health system problems became so big that French President Emmanuel Macron addressed to France’s health workers about them:
French President Emmanuel Macron ...
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Do any states or counties in the US have universal discounted/free healthcare?
Many countries, such as the UK, have universal healthcare which is free and widely available to residents of that country. While there have been previous questions on why state-run and national ...
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