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Deborah
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want to know infor on prices and copay of health care for 1 person and family of 3?
A:Deborah, I'm sorry, but we aren't involved with that sort of stuff. We are not an insurer, HMO, nor an insurance broker or consumer information source. A place to start is with the website for the health department of your state government, they typically can point people where to go to find information of that sort.
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Henry Lord
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Under the UHS model, how would durable medical equipment for home use be handle, such as oxygen, hospital beds, nubulizers, ventilators etc?

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keisha vanderstoop
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HOW HAS CULTURE IMPACTED ON HEALTH CARE?
A:The only way to answer the question is this: In every way possible. Unfortunately the question is far too broad to speak intelligently to it. But I'll say that the definition of "health" is culturally dependent as much as it is scientifically dependent, hence different cultures can produce different types of systems in terms of identification of illness, diagnoses and treatments. In other sense, sociologically, a health care system functions with differential treatment for individuals. That is, different individuals with the same medical status can receive different treatment, defined very broadly. In a market-based system money differentiates. Gender can differentiate. In the US we see great disparities in health care access based on race: African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans have far higher uninsured rates than whites, while Asians also have higher uninsured rates, but of much less difference. There are also differences in health status, as can be imagined, stemming from the insurance rate disparities. But there are also disparities by race/ethnicity for other health system issues not related to insurance or income, where it is clear racism is an element. For these types of issues, I'm not referring to some of the well-documented distinctions in prevalence of certain conditions based on race or ethnicity, such as that Jews of certain geographic lineage are, on average, more susceptible to Tay-Sachs disease or that African-Americans are more susceptible to high blood pressure.