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Sick Around The World Analysis

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Prior to taking and enrolling in the class Introduction to United States Services System, I knew very little concerning the subject. Although I was naïve about U.S health care, I was aware of the Affordable Health Care Act, insurance classifications, and that the United States Health care system is unsatisfactory compared to other systems around the world.
Throughout the semester, I came across many concepts, statistics, and facts that I found both surprising and interesting. A large majority of this came from reading the text. I learned that health care occupies nearly one-sixth of the U.S. economy", the system does not work systematically but rather works "non-systematically to achieve diverse aims", and that the United States health is …show more content…

By choosing the policies that seemed to be the best and most efficient from four countries I was able to created a theoretical "superior" health care system. From Great Britain, my system adopted a system where every non-life threatening individual is referred to first. This cuts useless spending, saving both time, resources, and money. My superior system will also adopted a yearly tradition of negotiating with health care providers to keep cost of care and treatment. The three tiers of the health care prevention, and hindrances that prevent the U.S health care from progressing. From Germany, I adapted insurance to be able to cover mental health and wellbeing as well as physical. This I found to a be a very beneficial in interesting policy as mental health is just as important as physical. Every individual in my theoretical health care system will receive a health card, keeping track on their visits and making insurance and to be utilized as a means of payment. Lastly, I adopted Switzerland's moto "everyone is entitled to healthcare". This gives utility and purpose to my theoretically health care system (Palfreman). This was a beneficial assignment as it broadened our outlook on health care outside of the United States and required us to apply what we learned through …show more content…

Before, my viewpoint was the University health work in theory but fails in practice. By looking at other countries who have implemented universal health care effectively, it became apparent that the United States is falling behind because the United States Health Care system has failed to adopt health care that is easily accessible to all citizens. This opinion was changed during the three week of classes during the Sick around the World video and

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