Healthcare Challenges Facing the African Americans in the United State

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1 Healthcare Issues Facing the Individuals Form Black Ethnicity in the United States Student’s Name Institution-Affiliated Course Instructor Due Date

2 Healthcare Issues Facing the African Americans in the United States Introduction Unlike other developed nations, the United States has a privately run and free business health services system. In a nutshell, this indicates that hospitals and other medical institutions are profit-driven. This perspective contrasts with the United Kingdom and Canada, in which the medical system is universal and completely free of being used by all citizens. Although the United States is also not the only nation with such a health structure, it has been the highest costly medical care globally. Although the healthcare services are excellent, they are much more costly than they should be. Most individuals in the United States receive medical assistance through the help of health insurers, which has contributed to insurance firms' dominance in the nation. The United States is highly affected by racial discrimination and social inequality. This factor has greatly affected how individuals from minorities and disadvantaged groups such as the African Americans access health insurance and medical care. The population of individuals of black ethnicity in the United States has lower life expectancies and increased vulnerability to dying from chronic diseases than the white residents. Due to their low income and inability to afford to pay for the nation's expansive healthcare fees and medical covers required to receive treatments in the country. This paper aims to investigate on the cause of poor health condition of African Americans and healthcare delivery model that can be used to help them out. Relationship between poor African Americans healthcare and racial discrimination Race and ethnicity are socially and culturally explained categories that have real-world consequences for people characterized by how other entities see them and their skin colors. In the United States of America's healthcare system, there is increased inequalities and discrimination, which unreasonably affect individuals of color and other underprivileged groups

3 in the community ( Fain, 2021) . These disparities have resulted in increased gaps in health insurance attention, unequal access to healthcare treatments, and inferior well-being consequences for specific groups of people in society. The idea of race is nuanced, having a long background of political and philosophical disagreement over its definition. Despite the incredible gains achieved to enhance the care system in the United States, race and ethnicity gaps remain undoubtedly the most stubborn imbalances in Healthcare. Individuals most affected by racial and social inequalities in society are African Americans. This condition limits them from getting good healthcare services in the medical facilities compared to the people with white ethnic backgrounds. African Americans demographics and social determinants of their poor healthcare system The composition of African Americans entails 13.4 percent of the total number of residents in the United States. People from black ethnicity in this nation have already been able to attain greater progress in the American community over many years, since the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 was passed. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, school completion rate has risen dramatically, by more than 90 percent of black young people in the United States between the ages of 25 and 29 having successfully finished their higher education. African American students' college completion statistics also have increased. Although good results have been achieved in terms of wealth, they are still compensated less in their workplaces than individual with white ethnic background employed in the same fields which makes them to be further behind in constructing of sustainable wealth and riches in society. In standings of owning permanents hoses, only slight over 40 percent of African Americans have their properties, a percentage that has remained fundamentally stable since 1968. African Americans also have an extended life expectancy compared to the past decades, and some of them have health medical

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