But when it comes to basic health services, unless those services are available in your village, you may never receive preventative care.
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The real reason: poor children are the first in line for the risks posed by killer diseases, but last in line for basic health services.
This means thousands and thousands of Indians living in rural and remote places will be able to get the kind of basic health services that they need and that are their right.
FORBES: Connecting the Dots for Basic Health Care: A Skoll World Forum Update
The new insurance exchanges created by this law ensure coverage of preventive care and basic health services, including maternity care, which is often not provided in health plans in the individual insurance market.
We approach this like any other business, we generate high volume and critical mass so we can reduce the cost to the clients and they can get the basic health services that they need.
FORBES: Connecting the Dots for Basic Health Care: A Skoll World Forum Update
Dr Dreze cites the example of Brazil where almost half of all health expenses is paid by the government (compared to barely a quarter by India), and where basic health services like immunisation and ante-natal care at birth are almost universal.
Healthcare quality organizations, like the National Committee for Quality Assurance suggest that millions of people in the United States do not receive the basic recommendations for preventive health services such as immunizations, pap smears, mammograms, colorectal cancer screenings and the like.
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This by extension suggests that almost half of the entire population has limited access to basic social services such as health, secure livelihoods and education.
The law requires coverage of not only basic pediatric services under all new health plans, but also oral and vision needs for children, starting in 2014.
Cash transfers have been successful in Latin America, he says, because they are "seen as a complement, not a substitute, for public provision of health, education and other basic services".
In the area of human development and social inclusion, the UN will continue to work towards reducing poverty, improving access to basic services in areas such as health, education and social protection, and achieving a more equitable and sustainable local and regional development for improving the socio-economic conditions of all, especially vulnerable groups.
Conditions for the refugees now in Kutum are poor, with the majority of those displaced from the camp living in open areas without basic services, such as clean water, food, sanitation facilities and health care, UNAMID said Friday.
But we still may end up having to work to pay off loans needed for medical treatment and spending time and effort explaining ourselves to or defending ourselves against the police, the health services and even supposed allies in the LGB community every time we need basic - even non-Trans-related support.
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