WHO urges Trump to expand Obamacare, ensure healthcare for all
WHO urges Trump to expand Obamacare, ensure healthcare for all
By Stephanie Nebehay - Fri Dec 9, 2016 | 1:11pm EST
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The real estate magnate takes office next month after promising to repeal outgoing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare policy which helped millions more Americans get medical insurance but has been a target of Republican attacks.
Agnes Soucat, the WHO's director of health system governance and financing, said there were various ways of providing health cover to more people, and it amounted to "political choices."
"We as the WHO really encourage the new administration to make sure that the social contract is expanded and that all U.S. citizens have access to health care," Soucat told a news briefing in Geneva.
The United States is the only country among the 35 member states of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) not to provide universal health care, a key U.N. Sustainable Development Goal for 2030, she said.
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Would be nice to see America catch up with the rest of modern world...
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