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 was the budget for the Center of Disease Control being cut drastically?
Right now, the CDC - according to The Trust for America's Health (TFAH)- says that the Center of Disease Control is underfunded by $4.5 billion and an act passed on December 22, 2017 cut $750 million ...
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Consequence of COVID-19 constituting a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?
Update:
COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
Confirmed Coronavirus Cases and Deaths by Country and Territory
Related links:
COVID-19 wikiquote
Why is COVID-19 prioritized over other ...
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How and why would (Bernie Sanders’) Medicare for All abolish private health insurance in the US?
Can the federal government really ban private health insurance companies from operating? It seems strange that the federal government would be able to outlaw contracts between two private parties ...
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Is there any credible attempt to analyze how cost savings from standardizing healthcare could compensate for extending it to universal system?
A big democratic talking point lately have been switching to a more universal health care system, which republicans obviously are opposed to due to the increased cost.
However, It's well known that ...
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Why does California spend so much on healthcare?
Taking a look at the California State budget, one can see that 46% of their taxpayers' money goes towards healthcare costs. But why is this the case? Isn't healthcare generally a federal concern, with ...
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Lawful for some English public hospitals to stock more kinds of medications than others?
Left to right – Guy's, Cambridgeshire, Salisbury, Oxford.
How's it legal for NHS trusts to have different formularies?
Assume you live in Cambridge, but your migraine can be only treated with a ...
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Does Andrew Yang support single-payer?
2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s website said this on March 9:
With a shift to single-payer, costs can also be controlled directly by setting prices provided for medical ...
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Why are Democrats mostly focused on increasing healthcare spending, rarely mentioning any proposals for decreasing the costs of healthcare services?
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are currently the two most prominent candidates campaigning for universal healthcare, as an expansion of Obama's original Affordable Care Act. However their plans ...
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How important is healthcare reform/plan to Democratic voters?
All four leading Democratic candidates have spelled out, in more or less detail, their vision for a healthcare reform/plan. But how important is the issue to Democratic voters, i.e. are there any ...
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How many countries have single-payer healthcare with 0 copays and 0 deductibles?
Many 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates in the United States, including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Andrew Yang, support a "Medicare for All" single payer healthcare system with zero ...
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Do any 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates support a 0 copay 0 deductible Public Option?
2020 Democratic Presidential candidate’s Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders support a single-payer “Medicare for All” healthcare plan with zero copays and zero deductibles. Other candidates, like ...
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Is comparing healthcare to food for private versus market based policy logical? [closed]
When I try to formulate a sound moral foundation for having universal healthcare that all citizens pay taxes towards, I always get tripped up that we don't argue the same for food, water, and housing -...
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Why would the Chinese government want to forcibly harvest organs? [closed]
There are reports about China conducting forced organ harvesting. I'm not sure why the Chinese government would need to do this. If it was about money, I'd assume they'd have to sell the organs on a ...
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Why does Canada fund fertility treatment but not dentistry, medications or optometry?
I'm from Ontario and OHIP funds fertility. If I get the facts wrong, go ahead and just edit!
OHIP doesn't fund, if you're
20-64, optometry like annual eye exams.
over 25, prescription medications.
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Why did UK NHS pay for homeopathic treatments?
This Business Insider article argues about homeopathic treatment being virtually banned from using NHS funding:
Britain's government health system (NHS) had continued to pay for
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