According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is knowledge attained through study or practice, or knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world..
The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system. Source: Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2010, the percentage of Americans without health insurance was 16.3%, or 49.9 million uninsured people. Source: US Census Bureau. Of the 83.7% of people with health insurance in 2010, coverage was 55.3% employment-based, 9.8% direct-purchase, and 31.0% government funded (Medicare, Medicaid, Military). (Overlap reflects coverage by more than one type of health insurance). Source: US Census Bureau.
When the Oregon Health Plan was first proposed in 1989, there were over 31 million Americans. without health insurance coverage, which represented 15% of the population under 65 years of age. In. the state of Oregon, which has a total population of 2.7 million, over 400,000 individuals were without. health insurance coverage, many of whom were employed either full-time or part-time. Both Oregon and. the nation as a whole suffered from a lack of health insurance coverage, particularly among low-income.