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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Demand More From Your Health Insurance Plans

By Madison Jones

Health care, or healthcare, whichever term you prefer, is the prevention, intervention and management of illness using the facilities offered by the medical, nursing and allied health professions. Yet, The World Health Organization believes the meaning should also incorporate all related industries and be a service available to everyone irrespective of who they, which means people as well as whole groups of people. Working to together this way, the whole medical profession would fall under the term health care system.

The term healthcare has not always been used though and prior to this is it was often just referred to medicine or the health sector but this was utilized more by English speaking countries. Even in most developing countries there is a form of health care provision for everyone whether they are in a position to pay or not. This first begun in the UK a few years after the end of World War 2 in 1948, and became the first health care service set up and run by a government.

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.

In America, the prime worry of employees is their companies healthcare plans, even above their salaries, such is the importance placed on this progressively costly service. Possibly the situation needs to be looked at from a different angle, one in which individuals are encouraged to stay fit and healthy as societies in general see a decline in the health of its populations.

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