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Good health plan benefits - 5 properties of a good health program

One user writes:

If I were dictator of North America, my first edict would be to make all
stores and restaurants that sell Coke or Pepsi sell both products. I am
a Pepsi drinker and am angry at stores that only sell one.

Then I would consider some less important topics: first repealing the
federal DOMA law, and then tackling health care.

I would do a survey of all industrialized countries to determine their
citizens' average life expectancy and percent satisfaction by their
public with their health care system. Then I would select one country to
follow. It would probably end up being Canada.

As /Idaho Health Care for All/ states:

The Canadians got it right, providing health care for all Canadians
through the Canada Health Act.

Five principles: public administration, comprehensiveness, universality,
portability and accessibility.

1. *Public administration* avoids the profiteering and thus the
additional 20-30 percent overhead and profit associated with
for-profit insurance companies. As with US Medicare the overhead
for public health insurance is much less�4-5 percent.

2. *Comprehensiveness* means all necessary services are covered.
Unless everything is covered, potential savings are lost if
patients delay preventative care or necessary care as a result of
financial concerns.

3. *Universality* means everyone is covered. Covering everyone allows
allocation of resources based on need of the community rather than
profitability. This kind of allocation of dollars allows for long
range goals and planning improving the health of a neighborhood, a
community, a city, a state, a nation.

4. *Portability* means you can take it with you. US citizens stay in
unwanted jobs just to keep their health insurance. Reduced
productivity of people who hate their jobs can stagnate an
economy. Canadians are free to follow their dreams, because
coverage is guaranteed.

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5. *Accessibility* means freedom from economic, geographic and
bureaucratic barriers to health care*. *

http://idahohealthcareforall.org/Information/NewsArticles/tabid/190/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/7/Principles-of-Health-Care-in-Canada.aspx

Of course, as long as there is a money pipeline from the private health
insurance companies into the legislators of your country, reform of the
health care is probably impossible.

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Regards
Bruce Robinson
ReligiousTolerance.org

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