People assume this complexity is an artifact of not having a national health insurance program.
And President Bill Clinton never replicated the effort in 1993 to pass national health insurance.
It argued that with ballooning health costs, national health insurance was an issue whose time had come.
Instead we add national health insurance to the expensive basket of benefits.
He has proposed to extend health care to every American by way of a national health insurance marketplace, with premiums calculated by ability to pay.
The AMA is legendary for having helped defeat efforts to create national health insurance in the 1930s and 1950s, and almost prevented the passage of Medicare.
Known as a champion of free-market economics and liberal democracy, Mr Akufo-Addo promises to kick-start an "industrial revolution", extend coverage by Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme and fight corruption.
Obama's health care plan includes the creation of a national health insurance program for individuals who do not have employer-provided health care and who do not qualify for other existing federal programs.
There have been proposals for national health care insurance, a single-payer national system similar to Canada's or those in Europe for many years.
Court decisions have helped to bankrupt the national health-insurance system, only 45% of whose members now pay full contributions.
We need a national health-insurance solution, but isn't it sensible in the meantime to make sure everyone has a basic health plan before we give a few more people a perfect but expensive one?
Getting rid of this rule would create a national market for health insurance, which would lower prices.
Karen Ignagni is president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, a national association of health insurers.
Time and time again, when polled over the last two years, a majority of Americans have opposed the national requirement to buy health insurance.
My husband is employed by a national corporation that offers group health insurance.
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In place of creating a national health system, the law bans insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions, bars insurers from setting a dollar limit on health coverage payouts and requires them to cover preventive care at no additional cost to consumers.
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Jessica Waltman, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Association of Health Underwriters, said she favored insurance plans offering narrow annual windows in which people could buy policies.
The gamble of an increase in National Insurance to pay for improvements in the health service was received as though most people believed it was an acceptable price to pay - if it works.
In Japan, national health care, including nursing care, is putatively an insurance scheme.
National Insurance was originally set up to pay for health and pensions, but it now just goes into the kitty with the rest of the taxes.
In 1945, months after Earl Warren proposed compulsory health insurance in California, Harry Truman proposed a national program.
Although some countries have national health care systems, others have systems that use private health insurance to some degree.
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The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 health reform law, is on life-support.
But I think you will find that the vast bulk of so-called Middle England support investment in our national health service because it's the best security, an insurance policy, they can have against illness.
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The Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Business Roundtable, Big Health Insurance, Big Finance, Big Pharma and Big Oil, among others, and business leaders across the country all hoped for a mutual and lasting relationship based on trust and respect.
Urban suggests going to the National Association of Health Underwriters Web site, where people searching for health insurance can punch in a zip code to get a short list of local and licensed brokers.
But beyond that, here are the top sources of anxiety: declines in consumer spending (42%), regulatory burdens (38%), the cost of health insurance benefits (33%), the growing national debt (27%), lack of available capital (21%) and federal taxes (26%).
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According to the National Business Group on Health, the typical large business will see its health insurance costs rise 9% next year.
President Obama promised that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obama Care, would eradicate the national scandal of tens of millions of Americans, largely poor, without health insurance.
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The plan, to be introduced in 2014, will set out how much people pay in direct taxes such as national insurance and income tax, outlining proportions used for education, health and welfare.
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