US/healthcare

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Unlike many other developed countries, the United States has no comprehensive national health care system. Health insurance is largely tied to employment in that employer subsidies are necessary in order to make health insurance affordable for most people.

There have been at least two major /reform efforts.

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Reference

• lessigwiki:Medicine: A collection of references on medicine in the US - must-reads, to-research, and examples of systemic corruption

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