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Mark Cwiek Outlines Nation’s Health Care Problems: Cwiek compared health care practices in the United States with those of other countries. “The United States is the only industrialized country in the Western world that does not guarantee basic health insurance for all of its citizens,” he said. This kind of “total coverage” would not be free, however. Cwiek said the average taxpayer would have to pay an additional $1,700 in taxes each year. The cost could be reduced if the nation shifted away from its trend of spending more time and money on treatment rather than prevention of medical problems. “We tend to spend more on fixing the person once their problem occurs.” Cwiek said prevention practices such as eating better, exercising and simply making better personal health choices could go a long way in improving the health of the general population. See: http://media.www.cm-life.com/media/storage/paper906/news/2003/11/14/News/Mark-Cwiek.Outlines.Nation8217s.Health.Care.Problems-2491860.shtml .