Problems With Healthcare In The United States

Healthcare in the United States is a constant struggle. For generations the country has been in heated debate over the best approach to this unsettling issue. While many changes have been made, none seem to be effective enough to please and serve the country effectively. No matter what course is taken there is always a group, or groups of individuals who are left out and underserved. As a country we need to provide for all of our citizens to ensure healthy living and overall quality of life. Unfortunately, our society is based off of socioeconomic class. This becomes an issue in regards to healthcare requirements due to the fact that many poverty stricken families go throughout their lives with little or no coverage at all. For those in good financial standing healthcare is easily accessible, while the poor struggle and deal with illness in inhumane ways. Millions of American citizens are uninsured; this number includes all walks of life from children through the elderly. In order to overcome this devastating issue the American people have to come to a decision on how to care for all of our citizens so that no one is left out. In today’s society this has become an even more difficult task as we face an ongoing struggle within our economy, leaving many families in financial hardship.

The Healthcare System in the United States has several issues. The Movie, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare points out a few of the issues in its system. Some of those issues include over medicating patients, treating problems and not the whole person, reimbursement problems from the government, overtreatment, and how it is an entrenched system.

Health care in America is a serious issue as it involves families that are unable to receive accessible, affordable and quality medical treatment. Middle class or impoverished families are unable to receive the benefits of health care due to low income levels and a volatile economy. Politicians discuss the reformation of the health care system, but people who are uninsured suffer the consequences of a system that overlooks middle class families in favor of wealthy families, a dominant issue for conflict theorists. Some argue that the health care system is not in need of reform and state that

Primary care is the backbone of many industrialized nations, but is the US one of them? Unfortunately, the answer is no. The US lags behind such developed nations in its accessibility of primary care by a huge difference. The United States healthcare system fails to ensure the timely preventative and primary care for its residents. The current estimates indicate that there is merely one physician for every 2,500 patients. Not only Medicare beneficiaries, but also privately insured adults struggle in accessing the right primary care physician at the right time. Moreover, maldistribution of physicians only exacerbates the problem, especially for those residing in health professional shortage areas (HPSA).15 Approximately, sixty-five million Americans live in designated primary care shortage areas.13 Such underserved population faces higher disease and death rates and health disparities that then result in higher rates of hospitalizations and emergency department visits—in other words, expensive medical bills.21 More governmental control on the geographic location of primary care physicians can be a first-step to fixing the shortage problem.

Medicaid is a vital lifeline for some 72 million Americans. Two-thirds of all Medicaid spending supports senior citizens and persons with disabilities. Cutting Medicaid would jeopardize the quality of healthcare, long-term services, and nursing home care for tens of millions of Americans. There are significant cost issues in America’s healthcare system that must be effectively addressed, but these challenges will not be remedied by benefit cuts to vulnerable

The political issue that I want to explore is the lack of universal health care in our country. The United States holds the distinction of being the only industrialized nation that does not offer universal health care to its citizens. This discrepancy exists despite the fact that Americans spend more money on health care for those aged 65 years or older than the whole population of any other country in the world. Unfortunately, health care costs in the United States are exorbitant and insurance companies often are more interested in profits than the actual well-being of their buyers. The lack of universal health care in the United States is anachronistic and does not reflect western ideals and standards. Just like shelter and education, health care is a fundamental right that should be accessible to all Americans, regardless of background. Health care should not even be a topic of political debate, but sadly it has become one.

Throughout the United States of America obesity is an ongoing problem for people among different socioeconomic statuses. The government, pharmaceutical, agricultural and food production companies are the leading cause of obesity, resulting in many health issues among Americans. The government wants people to be unhealthy to increase their income from the healthcare industry and Americans are falsely educated on the topic of their health and diet.

Health Care in the United States is always a issue at rise. There is always studies that can be conducted in health care. There are always more ways to increase the cost of health care. Most importantly there are always the need for sufficient and well given health care. Health care will never fade away, it will always be around. Health care relates to the concentration of wealth in the United States. It is time that we redistribute wealth in America.

The United States health care system has attempted to bring its health care structure into a position fitting of the richest nation in the world. Yet, evidence suggests that socioeconomic disparities still exist, and access to care is still an issue even for citizens who have enrolled in health care plans (Delgado, 2015). Access to health care should be considered a basic right, a natural right for everyone. In 2008 T.R. Reid traveled to 5 countries that were among the richest in the world and provided universal health care access in some fashion. Here we will use Ried’s (2008) findings to discuss distributive justice, vulnerabilities and the human right to health care.

Health Care in the United States The federal government should provide health care for all citizens who cannot afford their own. The issue of health care in the United States has been discussed for many decades and a solution that is suitable for everyone has not yet been established. There are millions of Americans who are not covered by insurance companies and also those who do not have the appropriate coverage they need. These people cannot afford to pay for it on their own, and medical expenses are the main financial problems within their families.

In 2012, the Governor in Council had passed two orders that would change the way refugees could receive health care. The health care went from being one level to a three tiered system. Some refugees cannot receive fundamental health care with these changes. Refugees from countries like Afghanistan and Iraq will not be able to receive the health care coverage anymore. Medications like insulin and cardiac drugs will not be supplied to some refugees, even though they are lifesaving drugs. Women and children will not be able to receive pre-natal, obstetrical and pediatric care either. This has led to eight main issues, some involving infringements on an individual’s Charter rights.

The U.S. health care system faces challenges and it is urgent that the American people

This is the essential concern of the human services industry as CBO estimates that PPACA incorporates diminishment in Medicare of over $700 billion amid the 2013-2022 period, principally through marginally decreasing the trajectory of using increments anticipated that former will PPACA. Singular recipients are not straightforwardly affected, the vast majority of the expense investment funds originates from diminishing future installments to healing facilities and other administration suppliers in respect to past benchmark gauges. Payroll expense base to 1.35%. Separated from these variables there are different difficulties, for example, diminishing inpatient volume, expanding expense for supplies and staff which can get greater because of insufficient subsidizing. Uninsured Americans are more averse to have general health awareness and use preventive administrations. They are more inclined to postpone looking for consideration, bringing about more restorative emergencies, which are more costly than progressing treatment for such conditions as diabetes and hypertension.

The United States has faced and adressed many issues ranging from war to economics as its grown into adulthood. An important issue that remains and must be adressed imeddiately pertains to the physical health and well-being of all our inhabitants. This issue is health care and the well known fact that our current method of paying the costs of healthcare is so faulty that Americans continue to receive inferior healthcare at a very expensive price. Americans, in my opinion, have come to accept hundreds of thousands of deaths each year as a minor inconvenience due to what they consider as “inevitable medical mistakes”. This should and cannot continue. So instead of looking for someone to blame like the physisicans or insurance companies the government must adress the fundamental casuses of our nation’s health-care crisis. Before throwing more and more money into the trash while trying to reform the current crisis we need to clearly figure out the problems in order to fix them.

Regulation of hospitals healthcare systems in America continues to be a divisive issue. The regulatory process is complex, as it impacts healthcare payers, patients and providers. Hospital regulations thus far have been made in disorganized fashion. As the issues of cost, quality, and accessibility to care, grow with the aging of the U.S. citizenry, changes on the Federal front are eminent. As we stand on a new threshold of healthcare indecisiveness we can only hope that the future of the American Healthcare system provides efficiently and effectively for its citizens.