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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Demand More From Your Health Insurance Plans

By James Read

The sphere of medical care and the prevention, intervention and prevention of sickness and disease is collectively known as healthcare. Nonetheless, The WHO believes the meaning should also incorporate all associated industries and be a service available to everyone irrespective of who they, which means individuals as well as whole groups of people. Working to together this way, the whole medical community would fall under the expression healthcare system.

Early before the phrase health care was popular, the English speaking nations called it just plain medicine or more usually the health sector but it still meant the provision of a health service to treat and cure sickness and disease. In most developed nations and many developing countries health care is provided to everyone regardless of their ability to pay. It was the United Kingdom that pioneered the first population based healthcare system back in 1948 called The National Health Service run by each consecutive administration.

A system second to this, according to The WHO is the one initiated in Italy where a compulsory system of insurance which the administration funds, but at a relatively low cost per individual, is used. Other examples are Medicare in Australia, established in the 1970s by the Labor administration, and by the same name Medicare in Canada, established between 19.6 and 1984. universal healthcare contrasts to the systems like health care in America or South Africa, though South Africa is one of the many countries attempting health care reform. A healthcare professional is someone who dedicates their skills to the prevention, intervention and aftercare of disease and illnesses with the intention to preserve and protect life and improve the lives of the disabled or infirm.

Over a relatively short period of time, the healthcare industry has become one of the fastest expanding in the world with an average growth rate of just over 10 percent of the gross domestic product of many developed nations and is still increasing, playing a huge role in the domestic economies of most nations. The only world nation to differ is The USA with over 15 percent according to figures published in 2003 but it is set to rise to almost twenty percent by the year 2016.

presently in the The United States over one hundred eighty million citizens are looking for healthcare and it will be no surprise to learn that it is top of all concerns for those in and seeking employment. The steep rises in the healthcare system in America almost contributed to the bankruptcy of the giant car manufacturer General motors. In this example some hard Union negotiations, compromises and the closing down of their finance arm GMAC meant this action wasn't needed.

Workers in America place this as their number one priority when looking for a potential employer and often will move to a lower paid position just to better their medical care. Possibly the situation needs to be looked at from a different angle, one in which people are encouraged to stay fit and healthy as societies in general see a decline in the health of its populations.

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