In April at the height of the pandemic America's private healthcare industry laid off 1.4 million workers.
今年4月,在疫情最严重的时候,美国私营医疗行业裁掉了一百四十万工人。
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For instance, in America, private healthcare, well, healthcare is done by insurance companies
比如在美国, 私人医疗保健, 嗯,医疗保健是由保险公司来做的。
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In other countries, like the US, private healthcare also plays a big role, with patients paying for some of their treatment, usually in the form of medical insurance, which funds the hospital.
Private healthcare or private medicine is healthcare and medicine provided by entities other than the government. The term is generally used more in Europe and other countries which have publicly funded health care, to differentiate the arrangement from systems where private healthcare is the norm.