Healthcare Comps presentation

Universal Healthcare

Ryosuke Yokoe

FREE

HOW SHOULD WE CARE FOR THE SICK?

How do we act in the face of sickness and disease in our own community?

Definition

“Universal Healthcare is a system of organized healthcare built around the principle of universal coverage of all

members of society.”

-World Health Organization

There are 46.3 Million Uninsured Americans

-United States Census Bureau

one every 12 minutes

45,000 Americans die every year because they don’t have insurance

…123 Americans every day

United States

France

United Kingdom

Japan

-3 2 7 12 17

Spending as % of GDP according to OECD

Spending as % of GDP

Low Life expectancy at 38th

Lowest Infant Mortality Rate at 46th

Discrimination

Inefficient and Unaffordable

Why?

Fairer Society

Universal Healthcare makes a…

Revelation 21:4

“Wipe every tear from their eye. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain.”

Physical healing was a part of Christ’s salvation, therefore we are to follow His example.

Luke 9:6, Mark 7:35

And the rest of the World…

“Everybody Has the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health”

-President Franklin D. Roosevelt