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Nearly every developed country in the world provides its citizens with access to medical care. In the United States, 1/3 of the population has no medical insurance or is underinsured. Many of these people are effectively kept from receiving needed medical care as profit driven hospitals, clinics and HMOs routinely turn them away. During the recent economic boom in the US, the number of Americans without medical insurance increased significantly. Insurance executives pocket billions while over 90 million people, 25% of them children, go without what the rest of the world considers a basic human right.
Steffie Woolhandler practices medicine at the Cambridge Hospital. She is a nationally-known advocate for universal health care and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. She is co-author of The National Health Program Book.
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