So far we have looked into how insurance companies have made things more difficult with people back in America. But know we are going beyond the protected United States and see what the health care system is like in poor third world countries. Health care in third world countries is far worse than it is here. Health care life insurance policies are based off how healthy the person on the day of applying. It is important for these people to get life insurance polices because many people are plagued with constant threat of disease, little drinking water, wars zones, insufficient food supplies, poverty, and poor living conditions. These all contribute to higher mortality rates. Even insurance companies cannot profit from life insurance policies because of the high mortality rate. The Elite class gets great polices and the lower class practically nothing. The middle class is non existent. Because of this the rich hold all the economic power while the poor are left to their own devices. Once family member dies it is a small comfort to have the sum of money as life insurance, but if their is not money than the family is left to bury their dead with no monetary value to use as comfort. The upper class again really is the only the ones that actually benefit from the health care systems in third world countries. Diseases like Malaria kills around 1.2 million people in Africa a year. These casualties are mostly young children. Things like clean drinking water accessibility also poses a gigantic issue to the world's overall heath. With no clean drinking water, diseases can harbor in the waters for long periods of time. Women that are pregnant that continue to drink this water can hurt themselves and their unborn children. The toxins in water can lead to low birth weight, along with other birth defects, but ultimately ending is SID (sudden infant death) syndrome. Other problems arise with third world countries like accessibility to health care. Lots of villages and town in Africa and other poor countries are remote, and not many options are there for those people. If a child gets sick or an accident occurs, many hospitals are hundreds of miles away and people die because of it. When physicians finally do make it to these remote areas many people are beyond the point of care. People do not have the ability to remain healthy because the resources are not there.
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