Health Care as Being a Social Problem

Health Care as Being a Social Problem

Health Care as Being a Social Problem

Introduction

There are approximately 250 million persons currently living in the United States of America, and every one of them has the require for productive, affordable and accessible health care services. Within the past 30 to forty years, the scope and cost of health care coverage and services has drastically changed. America's health care system is the most expensive in the world. We spend twice as much per person as other evolved countries. That is not because we are sicker or more challenging and it is not because we get better results. By the normal measures of health for life expectancy, infant mortality, immunization rates are not as good as most other evolved countries. In addition, the United States is most probable the only evolved homeland that does not supply comprehensive health care to all its citizens. Millions of Americans are uninsured. This includes the sick, the poor, and minorities. Most of the rest of us are underinsured, even while we sometimes obtain far more of certain kinds of health care than we need. We require restructuring the health care insurance system so that every American is covered.

Discussion

My last boss was compelled out of business due to financial failure. I lost my health insurance. One of the reasons, other than to farther my education, I returned to school was to be able to utilize the Student Health Center to assist ease the problem of high medical costs. Our health care system is shockingly expensive, yet inadequate and inequitable. The only probable explanation is that there is something about the system itself, and the way we finance and consign health care that is enormously inefficient. We simply manage not get our money's worth. Health care in America is unreasonable and inefficient. It costs too much, covers too little, and excludes too much. According to the Center for Studying Health System Change companies have endeavoured many things, such as decreasing premium contributions, shifting costs to employees, changing the products suggested or the insurance carrier and decreasing coverage and eligibility. The year 2003 saw both large and small employers facing cost pressures. Many employers are passing costs on to employees by raising deductible and copay levels and shifting more of the premium expense. The goal is to save cash by making employees more accountable for their medical expenditures (Harrington).

The improved interest could not have arrive at the more critical moment. According to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. system is approaching flat-line. In the culmination of the three-year study of the nation's uninsured, the managing assembly of the academy's prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM) for the first time formally suggested that the United States guarantee health insurance for every citizen.

"The lack of health insurance for tens of millions of Americans has serious negative consequences and financial costs not only for the uninsured themselves but also for their families, the communities they reside ...