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    The American Health Care System: Do Women’s Health Issues Matter? It is hard to believe that in a first world country women are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than men because clinical researchers tend to conduct more health studies on men and then release the research to the public claiming that the studies apply to both genders. Sadly, the problem of women not being equally represented as men in clinical studies is a reality in the United States of America and puts women at risk

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    The purpose of this paper is to compare health care systems in three western industrialized democratic societies: The UK, Canada, and the United States. Each nation’s health care system is a reflection of it’s history, politics, economy, and national values (Reid, 2009). Although there are local varations of health care systems, they all tend to follow the same general pattern. In some models, government is both the provider of health care and the payer. In others, doctors and hospitals are in the

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    Personally, I believe it is impossible to have a free market medical system that works. I feel this way because almost any free market operating without adequate regulation erodes to corruption and greed. The idea of trying to assimilate a capitalist and socialist enterprise is absurd. Take the Affordable Care Act, while being a very noble and necessary stepping stone to attempt to introduce a single-payer program to the United States, it is ridiculous that, in our society, we are fighting about

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    public health care system is a system of health care financing designed to meet the cost of all or most health care needs from a publicly managed fund. In some countries, the fund is controlled directly by the government or by an agency of the government for the benefit of the entire population. A public health care system has its own advantages and disadvantages. As it consists of universal health care coverage, every residents or citizens of a particular country get to enjoy mandatory health services

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    Health care systems are different in every country around the world. There are four main components that complete a health care delivery system, described by Shi and Singh (2015) as the quad-function model, which includes insurance, financing, payment and delivery of care (p. 5). Along with the components of the quad-function model it is important to analyze a countries access to care, their health outcomes and how public health is integrated into the health care delivery system. The United States

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    British Health Care Systems By examining both the United States health care system and the British health care system, it will provide insight of which elements of each system are beneficiary and which elements of each system are disadvantages. Therefore, this paper will provide an overview of the pros and cons of each system to decide where improvements need to be made. The Health System in the United States The United States is the only nation that does not participate in a universal health care

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    Improving America’s Current Health Care System The health care system of the United States is dysfunctional and broken. While many upper and middle class Americans have nothing to worry about since they can afford health care insurance, the lower class are neglected and pushed to the side. Including funding and performance, the costs of the health care insurance has caused current political evaluations. Yes, Medicaid does cover the poor Americans, but you do not receive the same treatment and coverage

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    According to The Director General of the National Public Health Institute, Professor Pekka Puska health is very important to everyone, individuals and nationals all over the world, but we all have our own perceptions of health and the cultural issues affect strongly to health. Generally we have good health point, but the differences between nations are large. In developed countries people are living longer, at the moment a baby girl's life expectancy will be over a hundred years. We have good control

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    and analysis of the comparison: The Matrix tells that the US health care delivery system that (The process that enables people to receive health care or the provision of health care services to patients) is complex and massive, and despite the uniqueness of the US health care delivery system, but it lacks the universal access (no national health care program); therefore, not all population has continuous and comprehensive health care. Its mission is to have universal access with better quality.

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    Free public health care or a single payer system as it’s referred to, is a health care system in which the state/government pays for any and all health care costs for its citizens. However in the south pacific region this system is becoming increasingly unsustainable, citizens are now being required to meet the full or partial costs of their treatment. This new system is referred to as the user pays system where the government is not responsible for meeting the costs of its citizen’s healthcare.

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