Presentación dirigida a alumnos bilingües de la ESO

2. * Majority people in USA (49%) have private health insurance
–the most usual through the employer- 13% is covered by
Medicare and 18% by Medicaid. 11% (50 millions people)
have not any health insurance.

3. * There are several kinds of public health
insurance. The most important are Medicare
and Medicaid.

4. * Medicare covers people over 65 years old and the
US federal government is single payer.
* This health insurance doesn’t cover preventive
medicine or some services like oculists or dentists.

5. * Medicaid is dedicated to low income families. This
health insurance is managed by each state. So there
are 51 different Medicaid programmes.

6. *The most usual is the
private health insurance
through an employer. For
example if you work for a
company, the company
pays your health
insurance. The problem is
maybe this health
insurance could not cover
all kinds of diseases.

7. * But you can get an
health insurance by
yourself (especially if you
have precarious jobs).
This kind of health
insurance is more and
more expensive. Last
years they increased by
87%. This explains why
there are a lot of people
without any kind of
health insurance.

8. *