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A 5 page paper. The U.S. is the only industrialized nation without a universal health care program. This essay discusses the amount spent on prescription drugs and other data, comparing certain data to Canada. The essay includes amounts and attempts to estimate the cost of such a program and the amount individuals would save. The writer also reports myths and facts about universal health care. Statistical data included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: MM12_PGundrp.rtf
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Given the continually rising costs of all types of health care, it is a mystery why this topic results in such heated debates. When one considers the fact that
about 46.6 million Americans have no health insurance at all, including 8.3 million children (Pugh, 2006), one must wonder why Americans resist such a program. These numbers reflect 16 percent
of the American population (Pugh, 2006). These numbers have risen in each of the last five consecutive years (Pugh, 2006). In 2005, the entire health care program in Canada
reflected 10.4 percent of the GDP (Minister of Health, 2005). In 2005, more than $2 billion was spend on health care in the U.S., approximately 15 percent of the entire
economy (Budget and Control Board, 2006). In that same year, prescription drug expenditures in Canada accounted for 18 percent of all health care expenditures (Minister of Health, 2005). In 2004,
prescription drug sales in the U.S. totaled $188.5 billion, accounting for about 10 percent of annual health care costs (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2006). Individuals paid 25 percent of that amount
out of their own pockets (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2006). These data do not include the numbers of people who send to Canada or other countries for their prescriptions (Kaiser Family
Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2006). It is difficult, at best, to estimate the costs
of initiating a national/universal prescription drug program. What we know is that the Medicare Part D prescription benefit is estimated to cost more than $1.2 trillion over the next ten
years (Connolly and Allen, 2005). It would seem that the governmental agencies have been unsuccessful in estimating the costs and have published different estimated costs numerous times since Part D
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