I ask will the United States let a law abiding citizen live if it cost them “Healthcare”. No, but they would definitely recommend you to visit a nonprofit hospital. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) findings prove that nonprofit hospitals have “higher levels of uncompensated care” than for-profit hospitals (The Medicare Newsgroup, 2014). I attest to the non-profit hospitals because of personal passions, the cause and this quote, “Our commitment to the community includes providing much-needed services to the underinsured and uninsured, even if it means we won’t get reimbursed.” (San Diego’s Sharp Health Care Leader, 2007) Studies represent a fragment that non-profit organizations are operating for the uninsured and the low-income communities
This outrageous amount of money could be and should be spent in a much more efficient way. The Canadian Health Act was introduced to Canada in 1984 and it allows every single Canadian access to free healthcare regardless of any financial barriers. I believe everything we get should be earned and we cannot continue to let the Canadian government throw away our hard earned money for small incidents and unnecessary check-ups. Nobody likes to pay for something that does not, in some way, benefit them. Essentially they are forcing us to do just that.
Of course, this is not the case. These companies are for-profit companies with nothing but profit and the bottom line in mind. The amount of profit depends on how much the contract pays as opposed to how much of that money is spent on salaries, facilities, security, and training. The less output, the greater the profit. Governments have always justified such contracting as a means of saving taxpayer dollars and private prisons have historically been able to operate on less money thus saving taxpayer dollars.
The questions still remains: why can’t the American people provide the best and most effective medical care for all of our elderly citizens? And, how can we accomplish this goal and fund it in a fiscally responsible way? Research still needs to continue in order to resolve these questions. Conservatives criticized Medicare because it is a nuisance to the party’s ideology, which views the private marketplace, not government, as the solution to society’s most pressing social problems. By applying the strengths perspective, which uses human strength and resiliency as a guide for helping individuals overcome personal obstacles and challenges, conservatives would rationalize that older adults should plan for their retirement many years earlier, preparing a way to provide their own medical care.
- Medicare is not currently in a state of crisis now, but considered and definitive action is needed to avoid an impending funding crisis with respect to the program. - Medicare is funded through taxation of income; any additional funding will have to be derived from cuts in other programs or an increase in the tax rate. - The elderly regard Medicare as insurance, rather than welfare because they spent their working lives paying into the system. This is not an unreasonable viewpoint, and serves to solidify the notion that the population, elderly and otherwise, will not take kindly to substantial cuts in a benefit thought to be an entitlement, rather than a handout. - Whether there should be Medicare at all is a fundamentally moot point.
healthcare system is expensive. Politicians and insurance companies claim that America has the best healthcare system in the world but the fact is that 42.6 million people in the U.S. currently are without health insurance, which slaps these blind fools in the face who think that American healthcare is the best out there (Maine). How can US citizens rely on such a system of healthcare? In 1998 the infant mortality rate in the U.S was 7.2 infant deaths per 1,000 live births (Maine). Although this number is pretty low, US is still ranked highest among countries based on infant mortality rates within the OECD countries.
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.
The reflection of the world in the 1908 papers show that it has substantially changed since then, most of the economic, political and cultural beliefs would very rarely come across our newspapers in today’s society. The political problems they faced in 1908 are quite different than in our current era. For instance we wouldn’t come across meeting times and locations of certain political parties, and the paper would be unbiased and have many more different opinions. Economically today, Canada has extremely good health care and although we pay for it in our taxes, it is extremely beneficial. The government’s priorities now are more on health rather than road construction or railway building.
The federal government is even mandating that it be implemented. There are many positives to an electronic medical record, some of which are decreased adverse drug reactions, increased legibility of physician orders leading to fewer transcription errors, greener for the environment and many more. There are also advantages from an outpatient side, in that, medication and follow-up appointment compliance, both increase. The downside is that it is costly to implement. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in 2005, the US trailed many other countries in this area and only 15-20 percent of physician’s offices and 20-25 percent of inpatient facilities utilized an EMR( electronic medical record), (Health Affairs, 2005).
This creates a major problem that a large percentage of Americans cannot afford health insurance. The federal government should provide basic health insurance in order to preserve life but not a system that allows all people to go and get medical attention whenever they want for minor things that are not life and death situation. There will have to be a slight tax increase or something to pay for this however. Everyone has the right to live. Approximately twenty-five percent of Americans pay no or less of a fair share of taxes today.