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
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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,
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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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What is the status of the infringement procedure against Romania due to high pollution in Bucharest?
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Virtually any Bucharest inhabitant can smell that something has burned during the night. This is confirmed by the air quality monitoring platforms such as Airly:
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What became of Obamacare’s grandfather fix?
While marketing the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama often said “If you like it, you can keep it.”, i.e. you would be able to keep your existing health insurance rather than having ...
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Is there any public health system that registers both biological sex and gender in the medical records?
This response to an article raises some concerns related to how the attribute "sex" is used within the NHS:
Healthcare providers and the NHS should hold accurate, reliable
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Are there countries where being non-vaccinated disqualifies you from "standard" health insurance coverage (for that particular disease)?
Reading the latest news on Greece imposing fines on the non-vaccinated:
"It's not a punishment," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told his cabinet in a televised meeting. "I ...
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How is the UK government addressing the shortage of doctors problem on the short to medium term?
I have recently found out the UK has one of the lowest number of doctors per 1000 inhabitants in Europe:
The UK has 2.8 doctors per 1,000 population, which puts it well below
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Is Iran's claim of civilian uses for 60%-enriched Uranium valid?
(This is a followup question, I suppose, to: Are there non-military uses of 20%-enriched Uranium?)
Following the US pulling out of the JCPOA agreement in 2018, and the other signatories enabling ...
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Why is Regeneron's Monoclonal Antibody COVID-19 treatment not being used in Canada? [closed]
In the United States, treating COVID using Regeneron's Monoclonal Antibody cocktail has been growing increasingly popular for its usefulness of treating patients at risk of hospitalization. It has FDA ...
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Do any countries have limits on healthcare personnel work hours?
One of the big problems during the pandemic was the stress caused by healthcare employees having to constantly work overtime to meet the huge spike in hospital patients infected with the virus. This ...
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In what specific way has the the EU "turned [its] rules upside down and inside out" on medicines in Northern Ireland?
In response to UK government accusations that the EU has been inflexible on medicines under the Northern Ireland protocol (see e.g. Boris Johnson's charge on 30 cancer drugs) the EU ambassador to the ...
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Why does the UK want to remove medicines from the scope of the Northern Ireland protocol?
I've read on the BBC that the UK is seeking to renegotiate the NI protocol with the EU (which is part of the Brexit deal). I can understand why the UK sees some of the provisions as burdensome, but I'...
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Is the NIH solely federal or public-private?
Many say the US drug industry came from the Federal, not the private sector. The US invests absurdly in basic health research. There they have the National Institutes of Health, the largest health ...
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Why are Republicans not against forcing employers to cover Viagra?
In my continued attempt to understand American politics, I am now writing another question that will probably spiral out of control soon. I do apologize for any mistakes in my framing of this question....
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For what reasons have countries outlawed prenatal testing?
For what reasons have countries outlawed prenatal testing? Is it something that is seen more in specific regions or not? Prenatal testing includes Chorionic villus sampling (CVS), Amniocentesis, ...
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Has any high official promoted reaching herd immunity through getting sick for a disease other than COVID-19?
I know this is quite old, but the question struck me only recently during a discussion.
Applying the herd-immunity concept to humans is about 100 years old, so clearly it made sense to come into the ...
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Privacy-wise what are risks of Israel-type deal to share anonymized vaccine data IF a country is using nationalized health plan?
Israel has one of the fastest Covid vaccine rollouts in the world right now.
To get it so many doses they signed a sweetheart deal with Pfizer to share anonymized, but highly detailed data with Pfizer ...
