Health Systems: Research & Counselling

Who should pay for health care in the US

Although health care is government run in most of the modern world, including most of Europe, Canada, Japan, Korea, amongst others, there seems to be an odd debate over who should be held financially responsible for health care within the United States.

In those countries where health care is government run, the debate of this issue in the United States seems a peculiar one, and this issue becomes even queerer when certain members of Congress question who should have to More

Action Sports: A Thorny Issue

For as long as human beings have known that diving off tall buildings, racing down ski-slopes, and hurling themselves down concrete stairs on boards with wheels is actually very, very fun, the problem of health care has been quietly awaiting to tap those who come short on the shoulder and say, “Hey, sorry to tell you this right now, what with you being in agonizing pain and all that–but you’re sort of going to need to pay if you want More

Health Issues: Germany

An unknown quantity to many outside of the country, Germany, and its regimentally strict laws concerning health care and those eligible for it, is, sadly, a tangled mess of supposed essential bureaucracy: government politics which seep through the cracks of every gap in society, permeating and influencing lives, irrelevant of class or culture. From getting a job to renting a house, every single aspect comes back to the bedrock that is health care. Without health care in Germany More

A Global Overview

What would you do with $429 million? It’s a lot of money, and it also happens to be the amount that municipal government in New York City spends on health care for the 8.2 million people who live there every year. Not bad is it? Especially when you compare it to Bénin, which for the same amount of people spends only $86 million.