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The United States Of America

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Executive Summary
Living in the United States of America, it is currently common to hear of how our healthcare system compares to other countries. In the past, snippets would be shared on occasion on the internet and in the news about the highlights and lowlights of the United States Healthcare system. Presidents all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt would bring it up as important matter to tackle for the nation but it wasn’t until President Barak Obama was campaigning that American’s really started to see the possibility of a solution. We took notice to the vast differences in our healthcare system, especially when compared to our neighbors to the north, Canada. In the past 8 years, more and more American’s have come to realize that our system did have some areas in which we are severely lacking.
Canada offers universal health coverage for all of their approximately 34 million citizens. Coverage is started automatically at birth, and stays with you for life. Healthcare costs are under strict control by the government, and even with everyone covered, only approximate 10% of the gross domestic product, or GDP, is attributed to the healthcare. However, in the United States we have approximately 316 million people, and an estimated 15.4% don’t have coverage. Costs are not controlled, and the with our consumer driven health care, it is common to hear of citizens going bankrupt due to rising health care costs. A whopping 16.2% of our GDP is tied to health care costs, which is a

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