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.
All efforts to introduce national health insurance which posed a threat to doctors' fees as well as their autonomy were successfully resisted.
Instead we add national health insurance to the expensive basket of benefits.
Their preferred option is to insulate patients from almost all costs of care otherwise known as national health insurance and then control costs by imposing price controls.
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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.
So instead of national health insurance and more government spending on the elderly, we would use our flat-tax proposal to urge people to solve these problems on their own.
The White House chose Independence for symbolic reasons -- President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965 as a tribute to Truman, the first president to propose national health insurance.
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?
It is clear that the President was talking about matters like this that involve the Commerce Clause, that involve Congress passing legislation to deal with issues of national economic importance -- national economic matters like health insurance, which is clearly a national economic issue.
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.
Because citizens must choose between the national system and private health insurance, the current arrangement discourages people from insuring themselves, thereby limiting market forces, stifling innovation and reducing choice.
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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