How the US health-care system works — and how its failures are worsening the pandemic
- Written by Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
The United States does not have a health system — it has multiple systems, with no coherence.
If you are an armed services veteran, you have access to a comprehensive, centrally coordinated, government-run health service.
If you are over 65, you are covered by Medicare, a federally funded, quite generous insurance-based system.
If you are poor,...
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