claim: "we are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."
author: dianne feinstein
evidence_1: the cost of health insurance in the united states is a major factor in access to  health coverage. the rising cost of health insurance leads more consumers to go  without coverage and increase in insurance costs and accompanying rise in the  cost of health care expenses has led health insurers to provide more policies with  ...
evidence_2: this is an empirical question to which the accompanying institute of medicine ( iom) report devotes a chapter. the data are not fully consistent on whether for- profit hospitals provide less or as much uncompensated care as do nonprofit  hospitals; data from several states show that they provide less, but national data  show ...
evidence_3: feb 23, 2017 ... angry constituents confronting republican lawmakers at town hall meetings  continue to make headlines. here's a look at what both sides are saying: it's one  thing president trump has in common... politics news summaries. | newser.
evidence_4: jan 20, 2015 ... fact one: americans pay way, way, way more for health care than anyone else. ...  if you want to understand why we are the only developed country with an  employer-based health insurance — really, the only one — then you had better  get familiar with the internal revenue code of 1954. the 1954 code is ...
evidence_5: health care as a service means that market competition will have all sorts of  negative effects and that only a more publicly organized system of care will  provide high quality care for all. this chapter will explore these issues. we will  begin in the first section by discussing the special qualities of health care, why  this is so ...