Global push to guarantee health coverage leaves U.S. behind
WASHINGTON (MCT) — Even as Americans debate whether President Barack Obama’s health care law and its promise of guaranteed health coverage should be scrapped, many far less affluent nations are moving in the opposite direction — to provide medical insurance to all citizens.
China, after years of underfunding health care, is on track to complete a three-year, $124 billion initiative projected to cover more than 90 percent of the nation’s residents.
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