Healing Health Care

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everyone,
not just the wealthy, can enjoy good health. As it stands, America is the only
civilized country where access to basic health care depends on where one works
and how much one is paid. For many well insured people there is debate about our
nation¹s stance on the separation between the individual and the state, but the
fact of the mater is that if our friend Grant had been born five hundred miles
to the North he would still have his teeth and a much brighter future.
In Canada, where they have had a national health insurance since 1967, a
citizen is guaranteed treatment for any illness that may afflict him or her. In
addition to keeping their people heather, and as a result happier, the Canadian
system has kept costs minimal while research and development has continued at
the same, if not faster, pace that we see here. Around the globe we can see the
correlation between national health care systems and better quality of treatment.
In Japan, they have countered the medical ...

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