Introduction and Background
- Health Insurance in the United States is designed for profit
- Hospitals can turn away patients if their insurance does not cover their treatment
- People can wait hours before receiving treatment in a United States hospital
- People are victims of health insurance fraud
- Health insurance companies do not provide insurance to people with certain disabilities
- Health Insurance Companies intentionally deny payment for treatments of clientele to save the company money
- Health Insurance Companies can revoke paid treatments if they find a unlisted health problem that you may have
- The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 by Ronald Regan promotes HMOs and mends the Public Health Service Act
- Canada, Great Britain, France, and Cuba provide free universal health care to their citizens
- Some people go across the border to Canada for health care
- High valued prisoners like Al-Qaeda members in Guantanamo Bay receive free top of the line health care
- Victims of health insurance mishaps emailed Michael Moore their stories
- Universal Health Care provides protection for it’s citizens