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'''Health care''' is the prevention, treatment, and management of [[illness]] and the preservation of mental and physical [[well being]]. It usually involves [[preventive medicine]] as well as [[drugs]] and [[surgery]].
 
'''Health care''' is the prevention, treatment, and management of [[illness]] and the preservation of mental and physical [[well being]]. It usually involves [[preventive medicine]] as well as [[drugs]] and [[surgery]].
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In the [[United States of America]], people pay for health care using [[insurance]]. In other countries throughout the world, the government raises taxes in order to provide "[[socialized medicine]]".
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In the [[United States of America]], people pay for health care using [[insurance]]. In other countries throughout the world, the government raises taxes in order to provide "[[socialized medicine]]". This has the effect of generally less efficient health care, as well as providing a disincentive to work.
    
==Politics of health care==
 
==Politics of health care==
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