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Compare And Contrast The Health Care System Between The US And The US

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It’s common for countries to compare each other in different fields that play major roles in their status overall. One of the more valuable of fields being health care systems, a field that provides for the everyday lives of citizens. This field is heavily funded by the economy and with this comes the comparison between the US and UK. The comparison being, who’s system is better in terms of economics? Both fueled by the incentive of saving lives, yet with different uses of resources, prices, benefits, drawbacks and role that their select government plays. In my opinion, the US health care system outperforms the UK’s heavily in terms of economics. Both systems have resources that are present, but shared amongst many making them time consuming to retrieve rather than scarce. This is present in both and is shown prominently in emergency wait times. According to …show more content…

This presents the US health care system has more resources as well better allocation of said resources. The allocation being done by a physician here in the US rather than a consumer preference at the UK. This goes well with the usage of resources as a physician, rather than an average consumer, knows what will work for the consumer and what will work fast. This is great most of the time but can be a major drawback for those using the US health care system, as many might prefer to just get what they want similarly to the UK’s system. Presenting the minor drawback that US’s health care system has for consumers but for the most part this isn’t as relevant. To keep physician’s going in the US’s system, most of their pay is from insurance compared to the UK’s taxation. With this, prices are going to be much more expensive, creating another drawback for consumers but also benefiting

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