United States Healthcare System: Article Analysis

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.

Universal Healthcare sounds appealing, but it actually lowers the quality and quantity of healthcare services that are rendered to patients, thus downgrading the healthcare system as a whole.  Not having to pay, with everyone having coverage leads to longer wait times for medical service and many people overusing health care services. Implementation of Universal Healthcare in the United States would lead to a detrimental crippling of the nation’s health system. For those countries that have implemented Universal Healthcare or a system similar to it, all or most aspects of the coverage such as cost and care is generally provided by and tightly controlled by the government, a public-sector committee, or employer-based programs, with most of the funding essentially coming from tax revenues or budget cuts in other areas of spending. This paper will conclude with comparing the US healthcare system to others and how the US has one of the most advanced systems in the world.

As an international student, this complete semester is a great learning experience for me. Various things I have learned in this four month period such as education system in the USA, learning and teaching culture in GVSU, last but not least United States health care system. Before enrolling for this course, I thought I would assimilate what makes USA healthcare system one of the best in the world. To my surprise, I learn more about why it is struggling in some aspects and how can we improve. Both India and USA attempting to fortify their health care system and approaching towards universal health coverage plan. Working as a medical professional back in my country permitted me to comprehend this entire semester by comparing healthcare back in my country and the USA. The thing which excites me more is to see the other side of the health sector, functioning as a dental practitioner never gave me such an open door in past. Learning this course really matters because things are working outside the doctor’s cabin are really very intricate and to run a healthcare setup effectively is extremely challenging and need an extensive knowledge and skills and everybody need to perform their respective roles.

The first characteristic of the US health care system is that there is no central governing agency which allows for little integration and coordination. While the government has a great influence on the health care system, the system is mostly controlled through private hands. The system is financed publically and privately creating a variety of payments and delivery unlike centrally controlled healthcare systems in other developed countries. The US system is more complex and less manageable than centrally controlled health care systems, which makes it more expensive. The second characteristic of the US health care system is that it is technology driven and focuses on acute care. With more usage of high technology,

The essay discusses the article "Access to Health Care in the U.S", which highlights the key issues of the healthcare system in US and how has it impacted the society as a whole. The healthcare system based on social inequalities has a lot of shortcomings which are discussed in the essay.

Some people say America has the best health care system in the nation, is this

The cost of healthcare has and will continue to rise in the United States. Some factors that contribute to those hikes are due to the consumer demanding more complex services from health care providers. Things such as new technology, equipment, research and testing procedures, along with pharmacy, and the number of uninsured are all dynamics of the increased cost in health care. The U.S. health care system relies heavily on third-party payers; these payers include commercial insurers and the Federal and state governments. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, the National Health Expenditure grew 3.6% to $2.9 trillion in 2013, or $9,255 per person, and accounted for 17.4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Id.

2. Here, the research shows that in many situations, healthcare professionals are urged to conduct unnecessary tests and procedures in order to rack up the bill for insurance claims to then

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.

Healthcare has progressed immensely throughout human civilization. From dancing to scare away evil spirits, to growing living organs in laboratories. No matter how advanced or archaic the treatment, we all as humans strive for the continuation of our life. As populations grew, organized healthcare delivery became a critical component to a healthy society. Many approaches to delivering healthcare to a large population have been created, but one variable remains constant in any solution to healthcare. Healthcare costs money. A lot of money. And someone has to pay, but where the differences between

According to the World Health Organization’s ranking of the world’s health systems the United States ranks at number 37 overall and is the only wealthy industrialized nation that doesn 't have a universal healthcare system. If this is to be fixed we need to take a look at other countries systems and learn how to improve conditions. This paper is going to talk about five countries; Spain, Germany, Canada, Cuba, and the United States. These countries cover a wide variety of healthcare systems. According to most lists America has the worst health care of these countries so it should try to learn from these countries to improve itself.

The doctor with the highest percentage of denials were actually going to get a bonus.” This shows why having health care controlled by privatized companies is a bad thing, they only care about their profit and not the general well being of their own customers as opposed to having free health care that is run by the government. Shown in “Sicko,” where in Canada, England, France and Cuba have free health care and their citizens are generally happy, versus U.S where there is a price tag on your body. According to Rick, a person who had his fingers sawed off, to reattach his middle finger he needed 60,000 dollars and to reattach the ring finger for 12,000 dollars. This also shows why having privatized companies control health care is a bad thing, because it can lead to your social status determining your health care, which should not be happening.

The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world. It spends

The United States health care system is problematic. On average the U.S. has 440,000 deaths a year from care in hospitals due to accidents and hospital acquired infections; harming patients and the pocket books of families and insurance companies with unnecessary cost and procedures (Allen). With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the government is hoping to decrease these unnecessary cost; cutting down on medication administration, providing more preventive care, and merging many different healthcare members’ jobs into one position in order to cut cost on staff. There has been great strives with the new reform of health care, but there has also been downfalls and uncertainty. Preventive care has come to the forefront; this will help save patients and money for all those in the market for healthcare, so everyone. While preventive care is great, it is leaving many health care members are questioning what is next for them. The ACA is moving into the general public, but with immunizations already being taken over by drug stores, people are worried about the stability of job opportunities outside the hospital. As a nursing student myself I have concern of what the job market will be when I graduate; because when I started it was in high demand and now many student are struggling to find jobs. Therefore, I have concerns with the ACA and that some provisions will need to be reevaluated.

Healthcare in America is a tricky thing, most people have it but should they pay or should the government pay for subsidized or free healthcare. "Universal healthcare is the practical road to health care reform in terms of improved quality and cost containment" (Kingson 6 of 9) Kingston states. We say we're one of the best nation but "The United States is one of the few developed nations that has not implemented nationalized healthcare" (Kingson 1 of 9). We have on of the best army's and some of the best cheese. When the house talks about how healthcare spending will negatively affect the top 1% but Harrop confirms "What about the rich? All this conservative talk about "redistributing wealth" ignores this reality: Every time medical spending