In the UK, alcohol causes 12,500 cases of cancer, around 4%.I also think this strategy is easy to follow as there’s no need to stop drinking alcohol completely, just less of it. It’s a positive strategy as it helps people save money rather than spend it but there’s also people out there who are alcohol dependant or even get peer pressured into it. Breast screenings or X-Rays can be a positive strategy for breast cancer, even though it may already show that the patient has breast cancer, they may be able to catch it
The pay-for-performance in health care is a major change for this nation and has never been under taken before but the improved healthcare policies of the pay-for-performance will lower the cost of healthcare for the United States government. This program has advantages and disadvantages but those in research, advocates for healthcare, and the healthcare community can determine which program that works best. The pay-for-performance affects the healthcare providers and the patients for two main reasons. First, the providers receiving pay-for-performance effects the reimbursement but more important, for the patients the quality and efficiency in healthcare services must not suffer because of cost
A Letter to the Editor It is Walter Cuffey's opinion that providing free housing and healthcare naturally would diminish people's desire to work for the government and pay their taxes, which in the long run would lead the country to bankruptcy. This contradicts Congressman Jesse Jackson Junior's opinion who believes it simply would create millions of jobs in the housing and health care industries and because of that generate a greater economic prosperity. I do not believe that the free housing Jackson mentions is meant to be expensive and luxurious. However, by free housing I imagine, he in point of fact means shelter, so that no-one in America have to live on the street. Once you have got a roof over your head, a solid base to return to,
Health Savings Accounts (HSA) can be beneficial to several individuals. Therefore implementing HSA would be a great idea, although HSA is beneficial it is not for everyone. HSA should be implemented because all contributions to the HSA are tax deductible. “This HSA contribution deduction is great because it is an “above the line” deduction meaning that it is deducted before arriving at your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) number,” (“HSA’s Are Awesome – 7 Reasons,” 2010). Along with all contributions to the HSA being tax deductible they money in the HSA also grows tax free as long as the money in the account is used for qualified medical expenses or waiting until 65 or older and using it for retirement.
The most expensive system in the world, the American healthcare system is riddled with problems and contradictions. One could say that this system is a work in progress, driven by interests with two goals that are often contradictory: providing healthcare to the sick, and generating income for the persons and organizations that assume the financial risk. UK patients prefer to be taxed in order to have free point of service healthcare. This system also allows UK pensioners to be able to retire and not have to keep working in order to maintain healthcare. Children’s dental, health and eye sight needs are free unlike the US healthcare, which creates a higher patient satisfaction with the national healthcare
Without taxes, individual citizens are required to provide for themselves in a time of unforeseeable hardship. The payment of taxes also offer Medicare benefits for senior citizens who don’t have the ability to take care of themselves, by providing nursing homes, and facilities for disabled citizens. With this money, the government can also help the less privileged to lead a better
As their political views, depending on how far to the right they sit, believe that the private sector should provide the care. Therefore reducing the amount of taxation a working person pays or allocating the tax to another cause of their worth. The Private Sector is profit making organisation and was around even before the NHS was born. One of the reasons the NHS was created was due to the poverty and disease throughout Britain before and after the war. Only the wealthy could afford to be treated by the private sector and their personnel interest is for the NHS to dissolve because with it, they could charge whatever they wanted.
One difference that has been established when the American healthcare system is compared to the other healthcare systems in the world is the healthcare payer policy. It is important to note that unlike other countries such as Canada and France, United States system does not have a single payer’s policy that puts the financial liability on a single payer. A single payer policy makes it easy to control the healthcare cost as well as facilitating in the improvement of the administrative efficiency. The administrative efficiency is enhanced by lowering the number of entities and minimizing bureaucracy involved in healthcare transactions. On the other hand, a large proportion of the cost in the American healthcare system relates to costs for the doctors, hospitals and other administrative costs.
It would give health care coverage to illegal aliens. It would also place the insurance companies at the disadvantage to the consumer. It would increase taxes for middle class and small businesses employee would have less coverage. The government control health care system will allow less flexibility of care for the patient. The healthy people would have to pay the burden of sick people.
The United States health care system is a market based system where most of our citizens have some form of health care, but this health care is not universal or provided to all of its citizen like that of the British health care system (Barton, 2010). Britain’s health care system is universal and comprehensive. It is based on a single-payer system and it is funded by general revenue. Ten percent of the British population carries their own private insurance and this coverage is comparable to that provided through the NHS, but this gives these citizens the access to better care and shorter wait times (Tanner, 2008). All British citizens are covered by health care unlike the United States where approximately twenty percent of our population has no form of health care coverage.