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In 1990 the amount an employee covered by healthcare in the U.S. had to contribute for family coverage icreased from $935 all the way up to $1,778. In 1993 Bill Clinton promised to do something about the rising healthcare cost in America, but slowly after the price continued to rise once again.

About 15% of America's population (47 million people) are not covered by healthcare and only 44.7% are covered by the U.S. governement (In Canada about 70% is covered). In 2006,the number of women who became bankrupt due to healthcare costs (precriptions, medical bills, doctor apointments etc.), exceeded the number of that which graduated. The cost of the U.S. healthcare system is 12% of the gross national product (GNP), although universal healthcare in other countries cost much less of GNP for example, Canada, 8.4%, Sweden9.1%, west germany 8.2%, Japan 6.8%, UK 6.2%.

Ever since the on-going increase in price it is not only the unisured americans who are finding it difficult to pay anymore, but even Insured americans are often unable to fill their prescriptions, or pay their share of hospital bills, this ofcourse excludes the residents over the age of 65 as they are given universal healthcare, infact barley even a quarter of middle class families can cope financially with a typical medical emergancy.The percentage of busisnesses that are offering health benefits have decreased to 60%-69% in the last 5 years alone, this may be mainy for the reason that in 2010 healthcare for a family in America will cost companies about $17,522 per worker every year. In Canada 4% of the population skiped a doctors visit, and 5% skipped care, due to the price of health care now in America 25% of its population didnt go to the doctor when they were sick simply because they couldn't afford it, 23% skipped a test, treatment, or follow up recomended by a doctor.

Shortly after a treatment or check up in america you will find an array of bills and paperwork laying in your mailbox, not really shocking when noticed that out of every healthcare dollar America takes and spends 24 cents on paper work, Canada where as only takes out 13 cents. For a country who has the highest quality of healthcare in the world, it seems to do more for you if your rich, rather then poor or middle class, for example, an elderly woman broke her hip pretty badly and was in the hospital for about several months or so, she became bankrupt due to the size of her bill because of the cost of the American healthcare system.

Canadian healthcare is made available to anyone and everyone that requires it on the other hand, and seems to pay more attention to the patient rather then the size of their bill so in this situation she woudlve most likely been beter suited for the Canadian healthcare. The healthcare in America wasn't argued as much in the past as it is in the present day, infact it seems people only started to realize how much of a slope the healthcare in America is on after the release of "Sicko" a film made by Michael Moore to point people's attention to the state of America's "glorious" healthcare.

Judging by the debates occuring in forums on the World Wide Web, who's topics have to do with the state of health care, most residents of America do want something too be done about this state of healthcare, but no one seems to be using their rights of vote, or speech as clerly stated in the American constitution,the words are "we the people of the united states" not "we the buisnesses and corporations of the united states" once the residents of America decide to use the rights and freedoms given to them, then the health care will change. It seems that if its left to the politicians, as long as theres a profit to be made, this slope will remain untouched.