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US healthcare revamp proposed by HillaryDate: 19/09/2007 09:28:03
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While British taxpayers continue to moan about less than perfect service on the NHS, many American citizens with no free health cover were given a boost by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton yesterday.
With the race for the White House entering full flow, front-runner Senator Clinton announced details for a comprehensive health system similar to those in Europe, but building on the basis of private medicine offered to Americans.
Plans costing around $110 billion (£55 billion) a year would allow existing schemes to remain intact while obliging businesses to provide health insurance to workers not yet holding cover, with tax breaks available for small employers unable to field the cost.
Government programmes would then come in to cover all those still uninsured, with providers of health cover prevented from refusing to include those deemed a health liability.
Ms Clinton's proposals promise new hope for 47 million Americans currently benefiting from neither private insurance schemes nor government-funded schemes.
The paradox of the American system is that more net investment in health-care occurs in the US than anywhere else, with the best health-care in the world available to some, while only emergency care comes free of cost for those unable to afford private schemes.
Data from the Census Bureau revealed that Hispanics, at 32.7 per cent, and African-Americans, at 19.6 per cent, were much less likely to be covered than white Americans, leading advocates of comprehensive health systems like Senator Clinton to strengthen their case.
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