U.s. : A Better Healthcare System

Walter Cronkite, an American broadcast journalist, once stated: “America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” The structure we use can simply be summarized as capitalistic and inefficient. The United States healthcare system is a constant cycle of an astronomical amount of money wasted on doctors who don’t invest the right amount of care into their patients; however, we need to move healthcare upstream in a way that results in improving health at the start and discarding harmful programs.

The economics of healthcare is not at all simple. What you put in is certainly not necessarily indicative of what you get out, as shown by the striking discrepancy between what we pay and what we get out of our healthcare system. This is demonstrated further by comparing our system to those of France and Italy, who come in first and second, respectively, in WHO’s international ranking of healthcare systems (“World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems”). Counter to what many Americans may believe, a number of European nations do not have completely socialized medicine.

The United States health care system ranks 37th in the world. Statistically, it’s bizarre how United States is amongst one of the most advanced nations in the world and the fact that it spends more on its healthcare

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’.

Many people believe that the current of health care in the United States is the best health care in the world however it has major shortcomings that has become more visible for the whole world to see. The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world based on health expenditure per capita and on

In “The American Health Care Paradox”, Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor explore why the American health care system achieves mediocre results, despite spending a higher percentage of its gross domestic product than any other country in the world on health care. They explain that health care is more than just getting medical treatment, but there are social factors that affect a person 's health. The authors claim that more government spending on medical treatments is not the solution to the health care paradox, but we should focus more on social needs that have a greater impact on health. Case studies and interviews with physicians, other health care providers, and social service providers are used to support the authors’ claims. Though the authors do not explicitly state the path they believe the American health care system should follow, they give examples of foreign health care systems and domestic health care projects that may point in the right direction.

Health care spending in the United States of America as a percentage of the economy has reached astonishing heights, equating to 17.7 percent. This number is shocking when compared to other counties; in Australia health care is 8.9 percent, in United Kingdom 9.4 percent, in Canada 11.2 percent. If the American health care system were to hypothetically become its own economy, it would be the fifth-largest in the world. While these statistics sound troubling, they lead us to look for answers about the problems surrounding our system. The first health insurance company was created in the 1930s to give all American families an equal opportunity for hospital care and eventually led to a nationwide economic and social controversy that erupted in the 1990s and continued to be shaped by the government, insurance companies, doctors, and American citizens. In this paper, I will go in to detail about the various opinions regarding the controversy, the history behind health insurance companies, and the main dilemmas brought out by the health care crisis. Greedy insurance companies combined with high costs of doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs or the inefficient hospitals all over America can only describe the beginning to this in depth crisis. Recently, the United States health care industry has become know for the outrageous costs of insurance models, developments of various social and health services programs, and the frequent changes in medicinal technology.

A nation that does not provide the opportunity, for the flourishing of health among its citizens, is inherently flawed. A country like the U.S is no exception to this assertion. The United States government should implement a single payer universal health care system. The Modern U.S health care is allowing its citizens to rack up vast amounts of medical debt, in addition, large amounts of its population to remain uninsured. The U.S lags behind an idea, which, many other countries have accepted and that is health care is a human right. A plethora of positive reasons stand behind the notion of a single payer universal health care system, like the ones in other countries. However, the system in place now, has many systemic problems that are hurting citizens, particularly the lower and middle class.

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), health care spending in the United States has grown at a rate of 3.7 percent since 2012 to $2.8 trillion, costing the U.S. 17.9 percent of total its GDP and ranking it number one spending on health care (Martin et al 67; world bank). Despite having the most expensive healthcare per capita, according to The Commonwealth Fund - a private American foundation dedicated to the promotion of a high performance healthcare system - the U.S. ranks at the bottom of the top ten wealthiest nations in terms of “access, efficiency, and equity” (Davis

We are not proposing that we adopt 100 percent of any other country’s healthcare system to create a better healthcare system, just take in consideration what works in their system and see what we can have implemented to our healthcare system. The United States should not rank number 37 when it is considered the richest country in the world. You can no longer be considered the richest country when the American citizens are sick and dying because 1 out of every 6 Americans do not have health insurance for their own person financial reasons cannot afford subsidized health insurance and not enough to cover their insurance policy

Our healthcare in the United States (U.S.) is the most expensive, so it must be the best, most effective system right? Wrong, in fact, not only do we rank last overall, we are also among the lowest in accesses, efficiency, equality, and healthy lives (Davis, Stremikis, Squires, & Schoen, 2014). How can a country full of innovation, opportunity, and wealth, be so lacking in something essential to those that live in it? Is there a better way? While there may be no clear cut answers to these questions, exploring what makes our healthcare delivery system different from others, and

The United States (U.S.) healthcare system is ranked amongst the top most expensive and technologically sophisticated healthcare systems in the world, yet the system fails to yield adequate health service for the tremendous amount of money it spends. According to Holtz (2008), in 2004 the U.S. spent $1.7 trillion or about 15.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) share on healthcare where the “health expenditures were $6100 per capita, which is higher than any other country” (Holtz, 2008, p. 1). Moreover, the health and pharmaceutical expenditures are rapidly increasing each year creating an economical burden in the country. In 2009, the U.S. was “ranked sixth lowest in life expectancy amongst

The current state of United States’ health care system is one of the most polarizing subjects of debate among scholars and other health care professionals across the globe. This can be attributed to the fact that at one extreme end, there are some who argue that that Americans have the best system of health care in the world (MePhee, 2013). Perhaps the availability of the state-of-the-art facilities and free medical technology that have become highly symbolic of the various industries in the United States have motivated the idea of the country’s health care system being unparalleled to others. However, there is a common belief that the fight for universal health care can only be successful if its current state of health care is described as a failure in the modern era as emphasized by MePhee (2013).

When we think of the United States, we think of the richest, most powerful country in the world. Yet, health care is not readily available to the people that live within this country. At a time when health care levels are increasing, so are our diseases.

Though the whole term study, I think US health care system is definitely a good system that help American people manage their health, but this system still face some uncertain aspects in the future that need to be improved. America 's health system is probably the most expensive health care system, so it meets a lot of pressure and it needs to provide better and more effective medical treatment, but also reduce the price.18% of the GDP is to enter the medical costs, this is not a model of sustainable development. In fact, we are now considering cost 3% ~ 4% of GDP (China) the proportion of 18%