Why Not the Best?

Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008

Why Not the Best?

Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008

Exhibit 3

I have selected this Exhibit because the amount of money that a country spends for assuring the well being of the health of its people plays a major role in the efficient and progressive development of a state, because it is the people that are off high worth living inside the state. People are the source of maintaining a perfect and efficient economy of a country. In the twenty first century the health care system of the national had to face multiple challenges. Along with a major increase in the number of noninsured people, according to the chart in Exhibit 3 the rate almost increased up to eight point six million in 2000, due to a consistent wear down in the coverage of employer-sponsored insurance, during the period of economic expansion. According to the graph more than forty seven million Americans were uninsured in the year 2006, because the major concern of the families is to have an affordable insurance system. Along with that the consistent rise in the employers and public programs regarding the cost of health care costs along with an access to care for elderly people has increased significantly (J. Holahan and A. Cook, 2008).

The health expenditure of the United States of America is already the highest as compared to any other country of the world, and it is projected to be doubled and reach twenty percent of the whole national GDP by the year 2007, with an even higher raise in the shares of the GDP going towards the Health Care department. The United States spend the most amount on the health care per person which is twice when compared to other major other major industrialized countries of the world, which has resulted in a rapid growth in the rates of cost regarding health since the past two decades. However the evidence still continues to mount regarding the quality of care and unevenity, which in most of the cases is suboptimal. Even after all these efforts United sates still is far behind when compared to other major industrialized nations in ensuring the universal coverage of its population. This has resulted in some serious consequences for the United States of America, which has resulted in poorer health system along with a lack of access to the care, which has resulted in large number of unchecked people suffering from different epidemics in the United States of America (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008). Whereas other nations spent a less amount of money on health care, but they have successfully achieved better outcomes as compare to America the major reason for which is they were successful is they have successfully covered their entire population. This indicate that the United States of America is not getting a high value of commensurate, with the amount of investments that are being made by them in the ...