HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Health Care System



Health Care System

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and explore the healthcare system of United States. The objective of this paper is to elaborate the findings about the healthcare system of United States and compare it with the healthcare system of Australia. U.S. health care system offer independent services at three main levels, family medicine, hospital care and public health. Medical services in the U.S. are private individuals and legal entities. Various commercial, charitable and government organizations offer patients both outpatient and inpatient services. About 47% of all U.S. health care costs are the costs of hospital care, about 2% - home care, 10% - medication and 10% - for the maintenance of nursing homes. The remaining 11% cover services of dentists, ophthalmologists and other specialists (Mercedes, 2010).

American healthcare is one of the most costly healthcare sector that provides healthcare services to the citizens of United States. The purpose of this paper is to enlighten the basic services provided by the healthcare system of United States. This paper explores and compares healthcare system of United States with other industrialized countries (Mercedes, 2010). This paper also discusses the cost of the healthcare services provided in United States of America and how they can be made affordable to individuals of the society. Finally, this paper enlightens the evolution and reform of the private healthcare insurance and its effect on the cost and quality of the healthcare services in United States.

Family physicians examine and observe patients, and if necessary refer them to narrow specialists or in hospital. Hospitals or hospitals - the largest component of health care dollars. Inpatient care is the most expensive and important component of the healthcare industry in the country (Pierce, 1996). Outpatient services are slowly but surely replacing inpatient care and home care - stay in their homes for the elderly. In the U.S., operates two types of hospitals: having the right to property, often controlled by large private corporations, and nonprofit hospitals that are managed by county and state authorities, religious communities or independent civil society organizations.

In the U.S. as in other countries, the concept of ambulatory care includes medical services, without hospitalization, which accounts for a large share of medical assistance to the population. Home treatment is mainly produced by nursing organizations and is generally ordered by physicians. The private sector outpatient care is takes into account personal physicians (specialists in internal and family medicine, pediatricians), narrow specialists, such as gastroenterology, cardiology, pediatric endocrinology, as well as nurses and other medical personnel.

American Healthcare Comparison with other Nations

The healthcare system of United States is the most expensive system in the world. The spending of United States on health system is more than any other industrialized country - both in absolute terms and relative to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Thus, only in 2007 the U.S. spent on health care 2.26 trillion dollars, which amounts to 7,439 dollars per person. According to recent estimates in the ...