Researching and Analyzing the U.S. Health Care System

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Researching and Analyzing the U.S. Health Care System

Introduction

The health care system in the United States is a leader in the world-scale resources. The number of people employed in the industry over 10 million people. According to the cost attached to the medical forum, U.S. ranks first in the world, both in absolute terms (2.26 billion dollars, or 7,439 dollars per person). Moreover, as a percentage of GDP, the healthcare accumulates 16% of the overall GDP of America. In addition, according to the forecasts, by 2015, the spending related to the healthcare system will grow to $ 4 trillion or 12,000 dollars per capita (Cardarelli, 2009, pp. 32).

The United States is the world leader in terms of performance and research. Health care in the United States to the most advanced medical equipment, medicines, and supplies. Today, most of the Nobel prizes in medicine are, U.S., as 18 of the last 25 winners were American citizens or visiting scholars. On Americans account for half of all created in the last 20 years of medical products. The level of their income, American doctors are much superior to their counterparts in other countries. According to health experts, Doctors from other countries dream to come to America and get rich. In American medicine is working up a system for monitoring the quality of services, the rights of the patient and his relationship with the doctor governs substantive legislative framework.

According to research by the WHO for 2000, US have the most stable health system capable of rapid response to changing conditions. America is a leader in privacy and respect for the sick, for the timeliness of care and patient satisfaction. However, the case is that the U.S. has taken 37th place on the level of care and the 72nd in the general level of health.

According to the CIA World Fact book, America is on the 41st place in the world in terms of infant mortality rate (the worst figure among developed countries) and at the 45th on life. United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee its citizens universal and inclusive health insurance. Despite impressive achievements of American health care and medical services to millions of Americans, they are not available, due to the extreme increase in the cost. U.S. Census Bureau released data showing that in 2009 had no health insurance 50.7 million inhabitants (including 9 9,000,000 non-nationals), or 16.7% of the population for an additional 30% of health care is provided in full. According to the report of the Institute of Medicine, published in 2004, the lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 deaths per year. For similar studies at Harvard (2009), the figure is 44,800 additional deaths (Chernichovsky, 2010, pp. 205).

Thesis Statement

“The US healthcare system can be regarded as amongst the topnotch system across the globe, however, the major flaw attached to it is the cost that prevents many patients with dissatisfying attributes regarding the ...