Key points A universal health care system ensures access to quality care for all citizens without financial hardship. Countries adopt different models for delivering universal care, and there are ...

What universal health care means during a pandemic. Our series on universal health care, "The Best Health Care? America & the World," was filmed before the novel coronavirus pandemic exploded.

From this vantage point, universal health care is about common dignity, the idea that each of us believes in the basic worth of another's life. We may not have lived up to that standard yet, but ...

Universal health care (UHC) takes different forms globally. The UK's NHS is an example of a single-payer system, funded by general taxation. Other countries, such as France and Japan, provide ...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn't expect to be reckoning with another health care crisis. In March, as President Trump and congressional Republicans escalated a nationwide debate over ...

One was to join Sen. Bob Hasegawa (D-Seattle), one of SB 5233’s cosponsors, in writing a letter to the Universal Health Care Commission asking them to study SB 5233 and develop recommendations ...

The solution is quite obvious, or should be. What is required is a publicly financed universal health care system for all — not merely what might be potentially provided for state legislators as ...

It is better known as the Universal Health Care Act. President Rodrigo Duterte signed the bill into law on Feb. 20, 2019, enabling members of Congress running for re-election to tell the electorate in ...

Most of developed countries have health care that is based on universal health coverage (health care as a right), government run or highly regulated, focused on promoting healthy behaviors and ...

Gov. Jared Polis signs laws ordering universal health care study, emergency abortion protections ‘I think there’s the opportunity to do this better,’ governor says of health care system in ...

Universal health care is undeniably expensive – the NHS is the largest single item of public spending by the UK government – but lack of coverage carries its own cost.