What Are the Arguments In Favour Of Private Health Care?
Privatisation is a word which is commonly used to describe the
practice of medical patients 'going private' and paying for the
services of GPs, hospital doctors or hospital provision, rather than
using the NHS. Privatisation can also be used to describe the charge
imposed for such health care services such as drugs, appliances,
dentures and spectacles.
There are many arguments which are in favour of private health care in
Britain, such as that private treatment is not the luxury that most
people seem to think it is. Most people believe it is a treatment that
only rich people can afford. This however, is simply not true as
patients in the independent sector now represent a cross section
through group insurance schemes.
Another positive side to private health care is that a lot of pressure
is taken away from the NHS when people turn to private medicine. The
NHS receives much needed additional income from private patients who
use their 'pay beds'. Also, a number of hospitals offer courses in
basic nurse training and post qualification specialist training. This
can also benefit the NHS as these nurses can leave the private sector
at any time to work for the NHS if they wish.
Private practices enable hospital consultants to receive enough
earnings similar to those they could gain from working the same job
abroad. This helps prevent the so-called 'brain drain' of our much
needed hospital consultants. Additionally private hospitals and
private insurance companies have, in the past, donated pieces of
equipment to the to the NHS hospitals, to be used by both the public
and private patients.
Another factor that supports the argument of private heal...
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...tates that PFI is a vital part
of its plans to expand and modernise the public sector and that using
the private sector can mean better value for money. PFI has now become
Labour's favourite way of paying for new schools and hospitals and
they are soon to expand it to cover projects such as roads and
bridges. The government have promised that under PFI, the extra cash
the government is pouring into the NHS and other public services, will
not be wasted and they will also make it possible to buy back
buildings when PFI contracts expire and return them to public control.
As you can see, there are many advantages to private health care and
PFI, despite the number of people who continually criticise the
system. As with all projects, there are disadvantages and flaws,
however the government are continually working on ways in which to
improve the organization.
The original ethos behind the NHS was the belief that, through the provision of universal and complete health care, free at the point of provision, the NHS would eliminate significant disease and thereby work itself out of a job. Clearly a naive view by today's standards, this ethic remains one of the problems of the NHS today: the electorate still believes that there is intrinsic value in a universal and complete NHS, although no-one can agree on exactly what constitutes 'complete' health care, and none can say what the actual benefit of attempting to provide this (rather than rationed care)...
Being a Canadian citizen, it is hard for me to think of life without any health insurance. I have had public health insurance all my life growing up and have been free to go to any hospital at any time and get some form of health care. Residing in the United States off and for the last 7 years I have experienced health care from both sides. I feel that private health care has huge advantages over public health care. In the following essay I will explain in three points why I feel strongly about private health care as opposed to public. What is better is always subjective, and I will not try to argue the point of health for all, but instead for the individual who is seeking the best health care possible, and is willing to put the resources into obtaining that. I will be addressing efficiency and quality, not inclusion of everyone (free health care), I will be addressing the root of this and not just that one argument, which would detract from my focus. I will not be getting into the political debate of socialism vs. capitalism, as that is a separate argument in itself, and this country is currently running under capitalism. Again coming from living in both a socialist and then a capitalist society, I feel I can do so in an unbiased manner.
Individuals experience different access to health-care depending on their social location. “A lack of access is illustrated by a person who has had an unmet health-care need for which he or she felt he or she had needed, but had not received, a health-care service in the past year” (Ives, Denov, & Sussman, 2015, p. 170). Health-care access in Canada is often unequally distributed, leaving vulnerable individuals unable to secure sufficient assistance. Changes in health-care delivery in Canada have affected individuals’ access to services. Vulnerable groups such as low-income, rural, and immigrant families experience pronounced difficulty adjusting to Canada’s health-care system.
Preventative medicine comes with the potential for making our lives both better and worse. Today the world in which we live in has faced steady medicalization of daily existence. Many factors have contributed to the rise of medicalization. For instance the loss in religion, the increase of faith in science, rationality, progress, increased prestige and the power of the medical profession. The medical profession and the expansion of medical jurisdiction were prime movers for medicalization. Medicalization has also occurred through social movements. Doctors are not the only ones involved in medicalization now, patients are active collaborators in the medicalization of their problem. Critics try to argue for or against the idea that this leads to a favorable versus a non -favorable outcome. This increased establishment and development of medicine, including technoscience, has resulted in a major threat to health. The medicalization of normal conditions, risks the creation of medical diagnoses that are widely inclusive and that hold the potential for further expansion. Many biologically normal conditions, like shortness, menopause, and infertility, are currently considered medical problems. These naturally occurring states are now regarded as undesirable and deviant. This process is referred to as medicalization. Although they are considered deviant, however, the process of medicalization also removes culpability: a person’s problems can be ascribed to a chemical imbalance rather than seen as reflecting his or her character or accomplishments. Some of the articles I will be looking into are Dumit’s “Drugs for life” as well as Healy’s “Pharmageddon” and Cassel’s “Selling Sickness” to explore if this process of overmedicalization has le...
The public health care system in Canada is still flawed, proven through the wait times that many patients have to go through. Canadians may wait up to six to nine months for “non-urgent” MRIs . The waiting list is dreary for Canadians, unlike Americans who can get their services immediately through paying out-of-pocket, the long public sector in Alberta waits up to a year for services, the wait for cataract surgery was six weeks ; these waits for some patients put the public health care system to shame, and helps push the idea of the privatized health care system a bettering option for the future of the nation. Additionally, 41 percent of adult Canadians said they experienced a difficulty in accessing hospital and physician care on weekday nights and weekends . Furthermore, it is still evident that Canadians in fact pay a higher income tax compared to Americans, due to the fact that they are paying the fund the health care system through their taxes; however, it is still significantly less to pay for a public health care system than it is privatized . Privatization is further proved as a superior choice with regards to the discharge situation many Canadians face. In Canada, it is common to see patients discharged earlier than recommended due the rising amount of patients using the free-of-charge public health care system, patients are released “quicker and sicker” because of this . Additionally, when discharged, the public health care system does not cover home care and private nurse care ; further proving the notion that there is still some forms of privatization already in the health care system in
The government of the United Kingdom substantially oversees most government activities, some of the activities they oversee is making sure that efficient and suitable Health care is available for its citizens a country with healthy is always a prosperous nation and in other to be able to provide good health care ,policies will have to be made. Health policy is provided with the help of a good policy making process
The United States healthcare system should not be universal because the government should not decide the healthcare choices of it’s citizens. Citizens should be allowed to choose the doctor and coverage they want at the price they are willing to pay. Universal healthcare would not only degrade the medical industry, but it will force people to pay for something they don’t necessarily need, or want. The current healthcare system is a perfect example of government intervention of a free market. Such a system violates the rights of patients, doctors, and businessmen.
Luckily under the new health care reform law, most people will receive help paying for their healthcare premiums and cost-sharing expenses that people with insurance have to pay out of pocket for doctor visits, and prescription medicine. Families and individuals will be able to receive this assistance with incomes between one hundred and four hundred percent of the federal poverty line. One hundred to four hundred percent makes up at about $23,000 to $94,000 a year assume this is for a family of four.
Universal health care is an on going debate that we still cannot decide whether or not to be for or against. In the article for universal healthcare states that we should use it because it is a constitutional right because citizens are granted life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. the argument against universal healthcare states that it can increase our countries debt. In conclusion if we were to have universal healthcare it could either help our country immensely or not help at all.
In a time of economic hardship, Americans have become more and more conscious of how they spend their money. For obvious reasons, nearly all consumers would agree that overpaying for a product is bad, what they don’t realize is that over half of Americans already do. The american health care system has a multitude of flaws with a bunch of causes that raises cost, but at the root of it all is what sets america’s system apart, private insurance. Because of private health insurance,the cost of health care in the United States has risen exponentially.
While most countries around the world have some form of universal national health care system, the United States, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, does not. There are much more benefits to the U.S. adopting a dorm of national health care system than to keep its current system, which has proved to be unnecessarily expensive, complicated, and overall inefficient.
Ans 1) To mandate the insurance or not is a big question to be answered and still there are a lot of problems associated with mandating the Health Insurance in United States. A lot of views have been given by people regarding whether there is need of mandating the Health Insurance or not.
Should the United States have universal healthcare? Universal healthcare means that everyone has access to the health services they need without financial hardship when paying for them. “The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not provide health care to all its citizens” (Institute of Medicine). The United States is one nation and every citizen should have access to affordable healthcare. Under universal healthcare it should help reduce spending on healthcare, improve the public health, and increase in economic productivity. There will also be a brief overview on the opposing viewpoint of why universal healthcare is a bad idea for America following the details in the sentence above.
The US should not implement universal healthcare for a variety of reasons. Healthcare should be an option to citizens. Although opponents say healthcare is a right, in truth it is not. The effects of universal healthcare are detrimental. Young healthy people are going to carry the burden of healthcare. Government run programs are not efficient enough to run a private sector as big as health insurance. Competition, individual ingenuity, and profits have always led to effectiveness and greater cost control. Less students will want to pursue a profession in the medical field. Healthcare is going to cost America billions of dollars and people will go to the doctors for minor illnesses which will lessen the time doctors have for serious patients.
While Universal Health Care is viewed as having a positive effect on the world and seems to do only good, it is a thorned rose, that will produce more negative, disastrous, and unforeseen outcomes than positive ones. Universal Health Care is a system in which the government provides financial aid and medical care to everyone within the nation. Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, and Sweden have single-payer systems in which every citizens medicare costs are covered for. Currently in the United States we have private insurance and health care, meaning that if citizens can afford it they pay for their own health care privately. There has been much debate over if the United States should adopt a single payer system or if we should continue on with the system