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Question by wwsracing:
Do you know the difference between Health Care and Health Insurance?
The bill that past did nothing to provide or gaurantee heathcare as a right to everyone. What it did is mandate you buy health insurance. Everyone seems to think it was about health care, it was not.

Here are the wiki definitions of each:
Health care, or healthcare, is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and substitute medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions

Health insurance like other forms of insurance is a form of collectivism by means of which people collectively pool their risk, in this case the risk of incurring medical expenses. The collective is usually publicly owned or else is organized on a non-profit basis for the members of the pool, though in some countries health insurance pools may also be managed by for-profit companies

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