Disparities For Health Care Essay

Americans are paying more, but getting less for health insurance: Should quality healthcare be available to only those that have the money to purchase it? According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality there are some disparities in quality healthcare based on race and ethnicity.
Disparities in quality. Although quality problems affect all populations, they may be most marked for members of ethnic and racial minority populations. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham examined the use of thrombolysis ("clot busters") for patients who had experienced a heart attack and found that while this evidence-based life-saving treatment was underused for all, black Medicare beneficiaries were significantly less likely than whites to receive this treatment.
Opportunities for good health bypass many of us daily. If we all were rich we all would have good healthcare because we could afford it. Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle can be costly. For most people good health may be unobtainable due to ones economic circumstances. In most situations being healthy has nothing to do with color or zip code. However it has everything to do with money or the lack thereof.
The country is divided about Obamacare, although its needed it is just a bandaid that covers the wounds of many Americans sending a message to other countries that America takes care of its own. However, Obamacare is not the means to the end of this healthcare crisis. millions of people are going without healthcare and billions are being spent and waisted on repeated visits to physicians offices and emergency rooms that offer medicines to cover symptoms and not to cure the cause.
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...tails and so on that may be served with rice, beans, ramen noodles or other inexpensive starch foods to ensure that one is satisfied after they have eaten. In a lot of cases this will be the only meal for the day. Studies have shown higher exposure to lead, rodents, insects that carry disease and mold in some of these community homes that can lead to asthma and other serious health problems.
Throughout history people of color have been designated for and isolated to communities that repeat the cycles of poverty by way of poor schools, lack of employment, poor housing opportunities, and lack of adequate healthcare. It is for this reason that poor health outcomes exist. Often times due to economic situations there is no option of choosing what type of lifestyle that you live. Thus, most often times you simply become a product of the environment by circumstance.