Heritage Assessment

Heritage Assessment

American Family and Health Care Tradition

According to American family, effective health care has been in the roots of American tradition. The health system of the United States includes all persons and all government and private organizations and institutions devoted to promoting and preserving health, and preventing and treating diseases and injuries. It also includes all the provisions dealing with the relationship between health insurance, insurance, service providers and other involved groups. The relevant provisions deal with the health insurance of the residents basically as a private matter, a universal health insurance is not provided (Blumenthal, 2006).

The United States of America is the only developed country that does not have a cover system universal health care, which is becoming one of its biggest problems embraces social, economic and political. On the social side, the lack of health coverage for more than 45 million people (about 15% or a in six U.S. residents) in the richest country in the world is a sufficient indicator of the severity the problem. Have been, however, the accumulation of many other considerations and the pressure very various sectors that have been on stage the need for deep reforms. Increased spending and less coverage than in other developed countries is the current situation of a situation not to deteriorate as time passes and whose solution seems simple. Increase coverage and reduce spending at the same time sounds too square a circle.

The existing public health system covers pensioners over 65 (Medicare, regulated and managed by the federal government that includes a drug copayment system), the people without resources (Medicaid, covered for the entire federation but managed by states) and children from families with limited resources (not covered by Medicaid) programs public are managed virtually complete by the payment of services to institutions private. By law, employers must insure their workers health coverage derived occupational accidents and hospitals have to meet the emergency care even those not are secured. With the exception of the military administration, there is a network of hospitals or public health (Ronald, 2006).

British Family and Health Care Tradition

Britain is considered as the cornerstone in providing the best and superior services to its people in all fields. According to British family, the health care system catered for those in state employment. In addition, key industries had health services of their own. Not until 1972 were peasant farmers encompassed within the system. Like the UK National Health Service (NHS), the system was centrally funded and formally free at the point of delivery. Unlike the NHS, much of the planning and coordination of the health service was performed at the level of the state, on the basis of detailed information provided by fourteen National Research Institutes. Primary care was not provided by family doctors as in the NHS. But, from 1975 onwards a system of integrated health care complexes existed; which integrated inpatient and outpatient care, was hospital-centered, and relied heavily on specialists (Rowes, 2000).

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