Can government provide a universal health insurance system?

Can government provide a universal health insurance system?

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to make an analysis on the issue of universal healthcare insurance. This paper focuses on the issue that is it possible for the U.S government to provide a universal health insurance system. Today, for many Americans, universal health insurance is one of the elements that define the society in which they live. When you understand the origin and evolution of this concept, the views and values of its critics or its champions, as well as historical events that influenced its implementation, we realize that the regime of Health insurance is constantly changing, it is the product of a delicate balance between public expectations, medical knowledge, technological change, the economic and human resources, and political will (Andersen, 2001). The site aims to present the history of people, gambling policy and programs that have helped make health insurance a distinctive thread in the fabric of social progress in America.

Discussion

In America, the health insurance plan, established under legislation enacted in 1957, 1966 and 1984, is a universal government-funded. The concept of a comprehensive insurance available to everyone, including hospitalization and medical services, funded and administered by the government, has a long history, complex, which goes beyond political issues associated with setting establishment of a federal-provincial-territorial cost sharing. During the evolution of American health care, the cost of hospital and medical services has been increasing. This has led to citizens, health professionals and progressive politicians to say that care was a social, rather than a commodity purchasable. Some have challenged this view arguing that health every individual should provide for his needs and those of his family, by subscribing to a private prepaid health insurance, and that the government should support the costs of people who could not afford to get one. Unlike the current system in the Canada, where the government regulates only the medical expenses of the elderly, the American system provides universal coverage for all citizens and permanent residents, giving them access to health services across the country when they travel or move to another province (Benjamin, 2002).

If the term “socialized medicine” meant anything, it would refer to a system where doctors were government employees and hospitals and other providers were government agencies like the Treasury or the National Park Service. And there are two, seemly contradictory things to say about that. First, we already have that form of medicine in the U.S. (and it seems to work well), and secondly, pretty much no one is advocating expanding it. There are two parts to the issue of health care: how we pay for it, and how we provide it. Advocates of universal health insurance by and large are not advocates of having the government “run” and own health care providers. Socialized medicine is a smear term, a straw person attack. The World Health Organization finds the U.S. is among the most expensive systems in the ...