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From Reuters: GENEVA (Reuters) - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care... The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, composed of 19 independent experts, handed over its three-year study to the World Health Organization, a United Nations agency. "Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale," it declared... Each year, more than 100 million people worldwide are pushed into poverty due to catastrophic health care costs, it said. "We are distressed by the reports of health care simply being unavailable to people because of inability to pay... Health care is also a key issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, with both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain proposing to fix what they call a broken system... Some 15.3 percent of Americans had no public or private health insurance in 2007, down... In the United States, minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer and colorectal cancer than whites, the report said. In Indonesia, maternal mortality is three to four times higher among the poor than the rich...
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