Word: health
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Stephanie J. Woolhandler, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, described the decline in average health care coverage in the past few decades...
According to Woolhandler there has been a steady increase in the number of Americans without health insurance. This year 44.3 million Americans are uninsured, many of whom are employed, lower-income adults...
...increase in for-profit medicine, such as health management organizations (HMOs), has also hurt both those with and without insurance, she said...
...said the United States is one of the few Western countries that do not provide universal health coverage for all citizens, and Americans pay 40 percent more for their coverage than do citizen of most other developed nations...
...Economic status is clearly related to health," Cutler said. "But even people who are very well insured don't necessarily get the care they need...