Healthcare

Healthcare refers to any products or services that treat, manage or prevent illness or disease and promote good health. Healthcare services are usually received from licensed health care professionals, such as nurses, pharmacists or doctors, at clinics, hospitals and other medical facilities.

In the United States, many people purchase health insurance to help them cover the sometimes high cost of healthcare services.

The U.S. is the only industrialized nation without some sort of universal healthcare systemConnecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care: The Case For Single Payer, Universal Health Care For The United States (June 4, 1999) and the proposed implementation of an American universal healthcare system has become one of the platforms of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign.BarackObama.com: Healthcare