The health care system in the United States is considered the most expensive system in the world although it underachieves in different areas, such as effective care, lack of access due to cost-related issues, and efficiency. However, it has the most sophisticated healthcare system in the world, investing heavily in research and technology. Currently, the United States spends 17.1% on health care as a percentage of GDP, while other developed countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and France spend 9.1%, 10.9%, and 11.7%, respectively (The World Bank, 2015). The United States has relatively higher costs mainly due to the fragmented health care system, not being a single payor but a multiple chain of participants. Due to this, a wide number …show more content…
Overall, the United Kingdom’s health care system should be of example to the United States in access to healthcare in terms of cost and quality care. Switzerland has an exceptional access to healthcare in a timely manner and access to health care no matter the cost. Despite the technology and specialized care the United States offers, it does not add up to the fact that individuals are less healthier than in countries such as Japan and Spain, where individuals live the longest. Overall, it seems like turbulent times for the United States to become an exemplary health care system to the rest of the world but with the passing of the Affordable Care Act, according to Karen Davis, “The U.S. performance on insurance coverage and access to care should begin to improve, particularly for low-income Americans” (The Commonwealth Fund, 2014). It is also focusing on primary care, which should improve the overall health of Americans and in turn, lower …show more content…
is the overuse of medical care due in partly to lack of preventative care. For example, “86% of all health care spending in 2010 was for people with one or more chronic medical conditions,” that could have been prevented (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). The U.S. should take in consideration the preventative care done in Japan. Japan is the country with the highest life expectancy at birth, averaging over 80 years of age. Japan has enforceable preventative measures that are publicly provided to middle-aged adults. It has developed an integrated community care system to ensure that the elderly population by having “various support services, including medical care, long-term care, preventative care, and welfare services” (Anderson, Mossialos, Osborn, & Wenzl,
On a global scale, the United States is a relatively wealthy country of advanced industrialization. Unfortunately, the healthcare system is among the costliest, spending close to 18% of gross domestic product (GDP) towards funding healthcare (2011). No universal healthcare coverage is currently available. United States healthcare is currently funded through private, federal, state, and local sources. Coverage is provided privately and through the government and military. Nearly 85% of the U.S. population is covered to some extent, leaving a population of close to 48 million without any type of health insurance. Cost is the primary reason for lack of insurance and individuals foregoing medical care and use of prescription medications.
There is an ongoing debate on the topic of how to fix the health care system in America. Some believe that there should be a Single Payer system that ensures all health care costs are covered by the government, and the people that want a Public Option system believe that there should be no government interference with paying for individual’s health care costs. In 1993, President Bill Clinton introduced the Health Security Act. Its goal was to provide universal health care for America. There was a lot of controversy throughout the nation whether this Act was going in the right direction, and in 1994, the Act died. Since then there have been multiple other attempts to fix the health care situation, but those attempts have not succeeded. The Affordable Care Act was passed in the senate on December 24, 2009, and passed in the house on March 21, 2010. President Obama signed it into law on March 23 (Obamacare Facts). This indeed was a step forward to end the debate about health care, and began to establish the middle ground for people in America. In order for America to stay on track to rebuild the health care system, we need to keep going in the same direction and expand our horizons by keeping and adding on to the Affordable Care Act so every citizen is content.
Canada’s health care system is one of the top in the world; due to the federal legislation for publicly funded health care insurance. Requiring provinces and territories to follow certain conditions and guidelines to maintain universal health care, which is known as the Canada Health Act passed in 1984. There are five main principles within the Canada Health Act; public administrations, comprehensiveness, universality, accessibility, and portability. Moreover there are three aspects within the principles, equity, access and undeserved. Several marginalized populations do not receive the adequate health care even though the Canada Health Act is in place to help “protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of
“Health is the state of complete physical, mental, social and intellectual well-beings not merely an absence of disease”(WHO,1998).Good health is essential in life as people’s career will be affected if they fall ill.. In the developed countries like Australia, People who are not involved in the healthy lifestyle are suffering from a range of health disorders like overweight, high blood pressure, obese, heart diseases, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, kidney problems, liver disorders and so many. To overcome these health issues Australian government introduced health care system. This essay will firstly, discuss the Australian health care system and secondly, compare Australia with other countries around the world in relation to different consideration on health.
“Homelessness can be the cause as well as the result of poor health” (Wise, Emily, Debrody, Corey &ump; Paniucki, Heather, 1999, p.445). This is a reoccurring theme that has existed within the homeless population for decades. While programs to help reduce this constant circle are being put in place all over the country to provide medical services for the homeless to be able to go to, many are still finding that health care needs for individuals as well as homeless communities are not being met. Many studies have been completed that study both the opinion on healthcare by those who have access to sufficient health care and homeless people’s perceptions on health care administration. While many companies are working to provide more personal health care systems, it appears that the larger problem is with a lack of people know about the health care systems that are in place to help them. Companies are trying to advertise more often to inform homeless people that there is health care out there for them.
In order to make ones’ health care coverage more affordable, the nation needs to address the continually increasing medical care costs. Approximately more than one-sixth of the United States economy is devoted to health care spending, such as: soaring prices for medical services, costly prescription drugs, newly advanced medical technology, and even unhealthy lifestyles. Our system is spending approximately $2.7 trillion annually on health care. According to experts, it is estimated that approximately 20%-30% of that spending (approx. $800 billion a year) appears to go towards wasteful, redundant, or even inefficient care.
The U.S. expends far more on healthcare than any other country in the world, yet we get fewer benefits, less than ideal health outcomes, and a lot of dissatisfaction manifested by unequal access, the significant numbers of uninsured and underinsured Americans, uneven quality, and unconstrained wastes. The financing of healthcare is also complicated, as there is no single payer system and payment schemes vary across payors and providers.
There are many reasons as to why healthcare is more expensive in the United States than any other country. One of them is because of the high profit margins that are protected by pharmaceutical companies. In other countries like the UK, the government can negotiate lower prices which brings down the cost, while the US is stuck paying higher prices because legislation greatly reduces negotiating power of the US government. Another reason is that consumers in America are not the direct payer, therefore, they generally do not care about how much providers charge because it does not directly affect them (through direct pay or taxes). Along the same lines, in many other countries, the government is the only buyer of medical services because patients pay for services through taxes. This causes the healthcare market to essentially be a “buyer’s market,” which drives the cost down. Another major reason for expensive healthcare is because American doctors are paid much more than doctors in other countries. A big part of this has to do with the very long and expensive road of medical school in the US, necessitating that doctors get paid more so that the process is worth it for them financially. Finally, the healthcare system is very bloated, with payments usually going through multiple intermediaries and each insurance company taking a percentage of the payment. The government does not regulate the costs in the industry very well, essentially creating a “seller’s market.” These are just some of the reasons of why the most expensive healthcare in the world is in the United
Rising medical costs are a worldwide problem, but nowhere are they higher than in the U.S. Although Americans with good health insurance coverage may get the best medical treatment in the world, the health of the average American, as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality, is below the average of other major industrial countries. Inefficiency, fraud and the expense of malpractice suits are often blamed for high U.S. costs, but the major reason is overinvestment in technology and personnel.
Healthcare administration provides leadership and managemnt to health care systems, hospitals, and private or public health systems. There are requirements for most professions in the health industry but with the proper education and certification, most entry-level careers are attainable. Healthcare administrators are leaders so one must be able to handle the responsibility of the job. There are characteristics that can be associated with being a health care administrator. I have learned over the course of the past few weeks that this the career path that I would like to follow and have set a few goals to help promote my career growth. My research has helped me learn many aspects of this profession and what it takes
The United States health care system has a unique way of delivering health care to its citizens. Unlike other countries, that supply a universal access system, the United states has a system that is developed through market forces and designed to take care of the needs of a certain population. With the United States being highly populated, the health care system does not support every person living in the US by having access to health care that is granted to those is various countries. The design and organization of the United States health care system was put into subsystems that would allow citizens to be put in a category as to which health care plan is best for them.
The real problem with the health care system in this country is not just the people running it but mainly the massive pit of debt it is continually digging. America spends around 17%, which is about $2.5 trillion of our GDP on health care alone! It is safe to say we spend nearly more than any other country out there. Where is all of this money going though, are they just giving it away to those in need of free medicine or people who cant pay there doctors bills? Most of the money spent is on regulations, research on medicines and failures of medicines that may have not made the “cut” to be on the market.
...ue to numerous medical errors. With the amount of medical errors that currently do occur which is a current health care issue it cost the health care billions of dollar each year to fix the mistakes that were made.
Health care has always been an interesting topic all over the world. Voltaire once said, “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” It may seem like health care that nothing gets accomplished in different health care systems, but ultimately many trying to cures diseases and improve health care systems.
As of 2013 data, the US per capita government expenditure was $4307 while total per capita expenditure on health spending was $9146, which is 17.1 percent of the GDP (2013) for the total expenditure on health. The annual rate of growth in per capita government spending on healthcare has been roughly 5.1 percent over the past thirty years (WHO, 2015). This rate of spending on health care growing faster than the economy for many years creates challenges ...