“The United States ranks poorly relative to other industrialized nations in health care despite having the best health care providers and the best medical infrastructure of any industrialized nation” (Battista). This is due to the detrimental loop of increasing healthcare and less coverage. With less coverage, health rankings decrease as more people ill people go uncovered; “Americans have the highest healthcare cost… but do not have the healthiest outcomes” (Reeve). With a universal healthcare system, every citizen would have access to healthcare and the rankings would significantly improve. Currently the United States ranks 21st in life expectancy for men (20th for women) down from 1st in 1945 (Battista).
Half of bankruptcies are caused by medical bills, and three-fourths of those bankrupted had health insurance at the time they got sick or injured (Himmelstein 1). Canada, which has a national health care system, has “better measures of access to health care than Americans, even though they spend much less per capita on health care” (Lasser, 1). Universal health care could change the lives of every US citizen. It would open many different doors for not only patients, but for physicians as well. The system may introduce new taxes and spending cuts, but the benefits, including the option of a centralized national database, outweighs the excuses for not executing a plan for national
They argue that introducing private health care will lessen the burden on the publicly funded system as many well off citizens would simply choose to pay out of pocket or through private insurers for services rather than rely on the public system. They argue that the government cannot do it efficiently. At zero prices there is an increase in demand for health care services. This in turn causes the introduction of expensive technology which increases health costs. With taxes at a breaking point government has little recourse but to try to hold down costs.
The need to offer higher healthcare quality and service at lower costs requires incentives for innovative delivery systems and new ways of working with fewer resources. Thus, the ACA encourages the following innovative models through the creation of "shared savings" programs that reward organizations that achieve pre-defined quality metrics at lower costs and other pay-for-value reimbursement methodologies. Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured
Also establishes a transition to the Exchanges for eligible individuals.” (Healthcare.gov) This ban not only made it impossible for insurance companies to deny people under these circumstances, but also made it so the insurance companies cannot charge someone a higher rate because of a pre-existing condition, even in an emergency. This alone will make the lives the American people with health issues better. Making healthcare more available is not just about being able to accept sick people. It’s about making medical care more available. Obama Care does this by making it easier for everyone to be able to qualify for health insurance, making new taxes and spending cuts, while increasing funding for health education.
Molly Leonard The Benefits of Nationalized Healthcare Healthcare has been a foremost dispute during the existing economic recession because of the necessity and significance of the service. Healthcare is primarily owned and operated by the private sector and the United States alone spends two trillion dollars annually on healthcare. The United States spends more on healthcare than any other developed nation in the world, but these extreme expenditures exist because healthcare is a necessity and right for every citizen (Johnson). The increasing health care expenditures are due to the dense population of the United States and the satisfactory standard of living that citizens expect. Government has the social responsibility to provide safety
Lack of preventative care is much more expensive in the long term, and it is standard practice at health care facilities to allow emergency care regardless of ability to pay. The cost of this care ends up imposed upon the taxpayer in any case. - The Infrastructure of existing Medicare programs has the potential of expanding to cover the needs of the uninsured who are either children or adults who cannot afford private insurance. - Producing an efficient, client-driven system of national healthcare will force private insurance to become more competitive in terms of their own practices. This trend will benefit all Americans, not merely those who need the public Insurance system.
I don’t know if it’s ethical to require someone to have health insurance, however, I think it is admirable to want every American to have health insurance. My only concern is that there will be bias decisions based on the type of coverage that you have just like it is today. Majority of Americans can afford to pay for the best insurance plan .Whereas the rich will be able to pay the best coverage therefore leaving the person with low income the inability to get the best coverage available.” The national health system reform law is expected to reduce the nation's uninsured population to what could be an all-time low. But even after the major reforms take effect starting in 2014, millions will remain without coverage, whether by choice or
The new Medicare for All programs would offer more coverage than the current Medicare system. There would be no cost sharing and coverage would be added for prescription drugs, medical equipment, home health care, early prevention, primary care and treatment for drug addiction. To overcome the resistance from some American’s to become a country were health care is provided to all, we would need to allow for a public option program. Physicians for a National Health Program have determined that the most cost-effective route is Medicare for all. Since the United States currently administers the health care system through private insurance companies, it has caused rationing.
The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010 Marissa Burton HCA 305 Delena Chappell-James January 11, 2013 There are huge challenges that the United States health care system is facing. The American health care system, although it is considered to be the most costly system in the world, delivers irregular and often times demonstrates poor quality of care. With the rising number of uninsured Americans and the elevated health care costs, we see just how big of a problem our health care actually is. What will the P.P.A.C.A do for our health care system (Filson, Hollingsworth, Skolarus, Ckemens, & Hollenbeck 2010)? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act were signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010