Socialized Medicine Cons

The U.S. health care system is way more complex than what meets the eye. A major difference between the health care system in the U.S. and other nations, is that the U.S. does not have universal health care. Lack of a universal health care opens up the doors for competition amongst insurance, physicians, technology, hospitals and outpatient services.

A national health care system in the United States has been a contentious topic of debate for over a century. Social reformists have been fighting for universal health care for all Americans, while the opposition claims that a “social” heath care system has no place in the ‘Land of the Free’.

“That the U.S. health care system is broken and needs to be fixed is widely agreed to be true” (Universal Health Care Opposing Views p 19) is immediately apparent following a brief research of the organization of health care in the nation. There is an inability to control rising health care costs, and the system, although considered the most technologically advanced in the world, is riddled with waste and inefficiency. Year on year, doctors are spending increasingly more time dealing with insurance related administrative work rather than healing patients, there is gross overuse of care because employees view healthcare as part of a work-related benefit package, access to health care is based on ability to pay, and there is constant anxiety caused by the fear of losing employer-sponsored coverage. In contrast, a system of universal healthcare offers free services that are accessible to all, releases doctors from insurance paperwork to focus on healing, removes overuse of care because citizens fund the services through the payment of taxes, and may lead to healthier populations, among other things. Therefore, although vastly different from the current system, one could consider whether the introduction of universal healthcare would be beneficial for the USA?

           In a country where healthcare is a decision, many debate if our country should keep our health care system privatized. Health care is an essential need in society because individual health can change at any time without warning at any time. While there are both pros and cons of this system, the pros outway the cons. I believe that our nation should ensure basic health care to all legal citizens, no matter the class. Many Americans fall into circumstances where they are not able to pay the expensive bills that privatized insurance companies billhave so they do not have chose to not have insurance at all. Universal health care gives those people the means of financial support when they medically need

Some disadvantages of the current health care system in the United States is tons of people have no healthcare insurance at all and many of the insurance coverages have such high premium and deductibles people can't afford it. For you to be eligible for Medicaid you have to have a very low income. To get Medicare you have to be a certain age and Medicare doesn't cover all health care costs. For Private health care insurance you have to have a clean bill of health and if you have health conditions they will deny you coverage. But if private insurance companies are willing to give you insurance the premiums are so high and the

The idea is to create a government-run health care plan that would be an alternative to the private insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care Act, or provide a fallback in markets where insurers have been pulling out. A public option could also be a way to stabilize the exchanges because a government-run plan could be used to enroll the people with the most expensive medical conditions. The private insurers would be more enthusiastic about selling policies because they might have to worry less about losses. Public option is simply a public health insurance agency, typically a government-run agency that can compete with the private insurers. This is sort of a half-way point between single payer and the pre- ACA private market. Almost

Socialized medicine could make healthcare affordable, not only to the wealthy, but also to everyone else. According to Connect U.S., “the NHS ‘was set up on July 5th, 1948 to provide healthcare for all citizens, based on need, not the ability to pay’” (1). The NHS is Britain's National Health Service, and along with most of the rest of the world excluding America, they use socialized medicine as the standard of healthcare. A report by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health revealed that “the UK’s socialized medical system performs better than the one in the US in terms of patient-reported perceptions” (Connectusfundadmin). This tells us that patients under a socialized medicine system are receiving better quality care at a better price. Health Care costs would also be lowered because prices wouldn’t be driven by supply and demand. Treatment costs fluctuate perpetually and vary from one city to

Some of the pros for managed care are; Preventive care — HMOs pay for programs, they are set up and are intended at keeping one healthy (yearly checkups, gym memberships, etc.)The idea is, so they won 't have to pay for more costly services when and if one gets sick. Lower premiums — Because there are limits set as to which doctors one can see and when one can see them, HMOs charge a premium and usually they are lower premiums. Prescriptions — As part of their precautionary retreat, most prescriptions are covered by HMOs for a co-payment that also can be very low. Fewer unnecessary procedures —doctors are given financial incentives from HMOs , to provide only needed care, so doctors are less likely to

One of the most demonized terms in American political discourse is 'socialism.' When various healthcare reform proposals are being discussed, it is common to condemn them as 'socialized medicine' if they call for greater government intervention to enable universal coverage of all Americans. However, socialized medicine refers to a very specific system of providing healthcare and virtually no American politician has dared to propose what would constitute a truly 'socialized' system of medicine. Additionally, many nations exist which provide universal coverage for all citizens without deploying a single-payer system. It is important to understand truly what socialized medicine 'is' and what it is not, as well as its benefits and detriments, when debating healthcare policy in America.

Socialized Medicine and the Health Care Reform are two different types of Health Care programs. Socialized includes everything related to Health Care, where the Health Care Reform cover mainly health insurance and cutting cost. One form of socialized medicine is Great Britain National Health Service or NHS.

The U.S. is one of three members of OECD, the other two being Greece and Poland, without universal health care. In 2005 the United States, as well as other members of the World Health Organization, signed the World Health Assembly resolution, which stated that they would "transition to universal coverage of their citizens... with a view to sharing risk among the population and avoiding catastrophic health-care expenditure and impoverishment of individuals as a result of seeking care.” So, the question is, why hasn’t the U.S. adopted a single-payer plan? It’s apparent that the U.S. should implement universal health care, as it would improve public health and is a right of the people.

In this paper, the USA healthcare system is being compared to the Canadian healthcare system. The U.S. health system has been described as the most competitive, heterogeneous, and inefficient, fragmented, and advanced system of care in the

Socialized medicine is what explains a universal system of healthcare. This would mean that medical assistance given, hospital stays, and any care received would be at a minor fee regulated by our government. The price would be determined on how much money is gained from taxes. This ethical debate began around 1947 when the American Medical Association was in encouragement for a universal healthcare system and the current President at the time, Harry S. Truman was opposed to the idea. This began a debate that has become ethical and tiresome in the United States. (Wikipedia 1) Until recently the healthcare debate had subsided. In March of 2010 Obama singed the Affordable healthcare Act. This gave those without healthcare an opportunity to receive care.

Throughout the egregious, painstaking process of republicans trying to repeal the ACA, one piece of legislation fell through the cracks, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Children’s Health Insurance Program better known as CHIP, has provided healthcare to over 8,900,000 children, yet it may be coming to an end (Kliff 2017). CHIP was set to receive a budget extension in mid-September, but the date has come, has passed and still nothing has been done. To avoid the catastrophe of having children uninsured, the federal government should permanently fund the CHIP program under current legislation.

Healthcare is a major topic that is constantly being brought up in the news. It is often discussed within categories such as economics, politics, and policy. The reason that is, is because of healthcare's crucial role integration as part of each of these things. With that said, the United States has received back and forth opinions on the healthcare services that it offers. Karl Polanyi defines embeddedness as a way in which economic activity is constrained societies set of institutions (Tuttle 2018). So this implies that there are two main elements that are 'embedded' into the American culture, individualism and capitalism. These two elements shape the way the healthcare system is set up. Capitalism