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Confused about Universal Healthcare? It's no wonder with all the hype surrounding our national health insurance reform debates. Keeping it short and simple we will explain exactly what universal health care is and what it isn't.

Healthcare Facts:

  • Health insurance companies spend millions each year to confuse and discourage socialized medicine and any single-payer plan. Health reform jeopardizes insurance company's hold on the massive industry that determines health coverage by profits rather than people's health.
  • Over 43 million U.S. residents under 65 go without healthcare coverage.
  • More than 18,000 Americans die each year because they are uninsured. (2002 Institutes of Medicine study)

Universal Healthcare Myths:

#Myth: The private business sector and free market system will eventually correct any disadvantages and the national cost crises.

Myth: The American health care system
 is better off than other countries using national health insurance programs such as universal healthcare.

Myth: Most of the uninsured are not U.S. citizens anyway. The truth is that 79% of the uninsured are in fact American citizens.


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SOURCES:  
http://www.iom.edu/?ID=4660  
http://www.amsa.org/uhc/MythsAboutUninsured.pdf