Health Care Debate in America

Introduction

The US political debates have focused on resolving conflicts over Healthcare Reforms. Budgetary limitations have spurred a debate over the financing issues of the Health Care Reforms. The debate on the financing issues of Health care Reforms has also gained attention in the United Kingdom. The recent changes in healthcare policies of the US can be considered as one of the primary factors, which have created concerns among the British healthcare professionals. At present, the British healthcare system (the National Health Service program) provides healthcare services to its senior citizens but the budgetary issues are causing limitations to the effectiveness of the program. After 50 years of the launch of this program, it faces similar changes as the US healthcare system is facing. The main issues in health care reforms are about quality, cost and the management of the implementing these reforms (Mariner, 46).

Healthcare Reform

Health reform - Current health reform is characterized by a business paradigm in which health is a market good, patients are customers, and market-like mechanisms, managerial principles, and strategies are used. Health reform includes: recent government statements regarding the goals and principles of health reform changes to the structure of the health system, including the establishment of regional health districts or authorities regionalization) changes in the organization and delivery of health services changes in the amount of staff and money given to various health care and health promotion programs (White, 169).

Unfortunately though, the program is now facing two major problems: beneficiaries are still having trouble in finding affordable care, and the Healthcare program is not properly funded. Consequently, the program could cease to survive unless a solution is found. One of the problems of Health Care itself is that it does not cover the costs of prescription drugs for its members; this has ...