If universal health care in the U.S. is your goal, then today was a big step forward, but maybe also a reminder of how far behind America still lags. The above map shows, in green, countries that ...

Since the coronavirus gained foothold in the United States more than two months ago, progressive lawmakers have used the outbreak to make the case for universal health care. “Health care is a ...

The world is nowhere ... It presents where these countries land on 12 key indicators for driving progress toward universal health coverage, according to most recent available data. These include ...

The people of Denmark, which also happens to be ranked as the world’s happiest country ... Medicare, first launched in 1984, is Australia’s universal health-care system and it covers the ...

1) Every developed country in the world is committed to universal health care — except the United States The first necessary condition for universal health care is a collective commitment to ...

The report comes as world leaders meet in New York City to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including for the first ... countries’ efforts to achieve universal health coverage and ...

Universal health coverage ... for the financing of health systems. Health is an investment, not an expense Affordable accessible health care can unlock human capital and economic dividends for ...

IN MAY 2014 DOZENS of mourners attended the funeral of a healer in the Kailahun District of eastern Sierra Leone. She had died after tending to people struck by fever, vomiting and bloody diarrhoea.

There are four significant misconceptions about universal health care systems that ... anywhere else in the world. It is important to clarify that nearly every country with universal coverage ...

Many say it's due in no small part to Thailand's universal health care system. Thailand was the first country ... in the world - just 58 deaths. Thai epidemiologists say the country's universal ...

Supporters of government-run health care frequently point to the "universal health coverage" offered in countries such as ... to talk with James Hughes-Onslow first. A reporter for Britain's ...

The world is falling behind in its progress towards universal health coverage, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Access to health care is on the WHO's list of fundamental human ...