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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 involved [[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 involved [[preventive medicine]] as well as [[drugs]] and [[surgery]]. | ||
| − | In most modern countries, people pay for health care using [[insurance]]. | + | In most modern countries, people pay for health care using [[insurance]]. In [[socialism|socialist countries]], the government raises taxes in order to provide "[[socialized medicine]]". |
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Revision as of 00:08, August 13, 2007
Health care is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being. It usually involved preventive medicine as well as drugs and surgery.
In most modern countries, people pay for health care using insurance. In socialist countries, the government raises taxes in order to provide "socialized medicine".
Politics of health care
Robert Moffitt said:
- Liberal candidates generally embrace expanding government programs. Expanding government control over the financing and delivery of medical services will guarantee even bigger bureaucracy, higher taxes, and increasingly detailed regulations governing the delivery of care. Conservative candidates generally emphasize the need to re-energize the market and make individuals and families the key decision-makers in the system. [1]