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 are so many Americans against Obamacare?
What is it about Obamacare that so many Americans are against such that it became an election pledge to repeal it?
I could understand a candidate promising tax cuts and then after being elected ...
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Why hasn't competition between health insurance providers led to lower prices for consumers?
In the US, a common argument I've seen against a universal healthcare system is that removing the ability of private health insurance companies to compete will give rise to a natural monopoly in the ...
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Why is COVID-19 prompting such wide scale action versus other infectious diseases?
The COVID-19 outbreak has been dominating the news recently, with loads of headlines and efforts being made to stop it from spreading.
Why this disease? It's not one of the most lethal ones, or one ...
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Why does having a soda tax seem so hard to achieve in the US?
According to this Harvard article eating too much added sugar can lead to serious health issues:
A sugar-laden diet may raise your risk of dying of heart disease even
if you aren’t overweight. So ...
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How does Obamacare save lives?
So I'm having this argument. I see people on the news testify that if Obamacare is repealed, then they won't be able to pay for their preexisting condition and will die.
However, the opponents argue ...
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, why is it claimed that the US President is making a trade-off of human lives for the economy?
This question posted recently makes a lot of assumptions, including
the US President is currently making a trade-off of human lives for the economy
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Trump's pro-economy death-permissive ...
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Why restrict private health insurance?
There are several countries in which all citizens have a right to healthcare that is paid for by the government, e.g. in Canada.
Yet in some of these countries (again noteably certain parts of ...
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What medical costs burden the military enough to warrant banning all transgender people?
Reported in Donald Trump bans transgender people from serving in the military
President Trump tweeted: “After consultation with my Generals and
military experts, please be advised that the United ...
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What is the rationale behind delaying the imposition of more radical Covid-19 countermeasures?
On March 3rd, the UK government released a publication detailing its Coronavirus action plan, which contains the four-stage plan that will be implemented throughout the country, in all four devolved ...
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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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Why is the United States voluntarily funding the World Health Organization 60 times more than China?
I read on https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-14/trump-says-he-s-halting-payments-to-who-for-data-sharing-failure:
The U.S. has contributed about $893 million to the WHO’s operations ...
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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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Why do people in the United States seem so averse to a Public Health system?
My question relates to a simple fact, that to many Europeans it seems that every time a President of the USA is committed to create a real Public Health service, the people seem to act against their ...
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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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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
thousands of ...
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