Compare And Contrast Health Care System Vs United States

The U.S. health care system is way more complex than what meets the eye. A major difference between the health care system in the U.S. and other nations, is that the U.S. does not have universal health care. Lack of a universal health care opens up the doors for competition amongst insurance, physicians, technology, hospitals and outpatient services.

Furthermore, the United States spends nearly double the average $3,923 for the 15 countries ("Health Care Cost," 2011).” Accordingly the U.S. throws away more money than any other country on healthcare which consequently could jeopardize the medical attention that is being provided.

The United States health care system ranks 37th in the world. Statistically, it’s bizarre how United States is amongst one of the most advanced nations in the world and the fact that it spends more on its healthcare

The country that I pick to compare to the U.S. healthcare system is Great Britain.

Comparison of Healthcare System: U.S.A. and U.K. The huge cultural similarity between the U.S. and U.K. covers many components of daily life, but healthcare is one area with a historical split. The UK has what is referred to as “socialized healthcare,” whereas the healthcare facilities in U.S. are mostly owned and regulated by private sector businesses, converting the necessity for good health into an opportunity for profit. In the United Kingdom, the government mostly provides the healthcare facilities, like, in England the healthcare is provided by the National Health Service (NHS), which is funded by the Depart of Health and accounts for most of its budget, the services are provided by Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland which

According to data presented by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the US health care cost exceeded $ 8,000 per capita, in 2010, comparing to the next most expensive system (Norway) $5,000 per capita (OECD Health Data, 2012). Despite being the most expensive system in the world, US healthcare system has failed in many areas of performance and quality. According to OECD data, US has a much lower life expectancy than other industrialized countries, also the infant mortality rate is higher than those countries. Moreover, the US is the only industrialized country that does not provide its citizens a protection of a universal health care coverage.

In my opinion, the US health care system outperforms the UK’s heavily in terms of economics. Both systems have resources that are present, but shared amongst many making them time consuming to retrieve rather than scarce. This is present in both and is shown prominently in emergency wait times. According to

The GDP in percentage spent on health care in the United States is significantly higher than other nations. More so, the amount of money spent on health care per person in relation to the gross domestic product person, that is, the GDP in total divided by the number of the residents available in a particular country, is as well higher than that of other countries. The United States spends about $8233 in health care per person. This amount is much as twice as the amount France spends, and France is thought to have excellent health care services. The U.S partly spends more on health care because the

Britain: Britain’s £57billion a year spending on health care falls well below the European average. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures show that in 1998 Britain spent just 6.8% of its gross domestic product on health, (Public sector spending on health here is 5.7% of the GDP, with private sector expenditure making up the remaining 1.1 per%) compared to the European average of 7.9 %. Britain spends an average of £1,510 per head of population on health - some £300 below the average for the rest of Europe. The UK spent 9.8% of its GDP on health care in 2009 and by 2014 it dropped to 9.1%.

In fact, the spending disparity between the U.S. and the other twelve countries is so vast that only the graph shown above can truly do it justice (commonwealth fund OECD Health Data 2016). The most shocking fact to consider is that despite such high spending, the U.S. still performs worse than these countries on health care. Where the quality of performance is determined by quality, access, efficiency, equity, and life expectancy the U.S. ranks dead last out of the twelve countries. With the exception of Switzerland, the second highest spending country, all of these countries have health care systems that are single-payer, universal, or both

On March 23, 2010, the President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) which represents the most significant regulatory that impacts the U.S. healthcare systems. With PPACA, 32 millions of Americans are expected the coverage and expanded access to health care and medical care. Due to the baby boomers and the downfall of the economics, there will be millions of people are seeking for low rates medical care which will create great impact on U.S. healthcare. According to Commonwealth Fund analysis, the U.S. healthcare ranks last on every cost-related. Therefore, healthcare becomes the top social and economic problem that American is dealing with. Like all other well-developed countries, there are both private and public insurers in the U.S. health care system. ‘What is unique about the U.S. healthcare system in the world is the dominance of the private element over the public element’ (Chua, 2006). Healthcare system in the Unites States can be divided into three different groups: Medicare, Medicaid, and Managed Care. Each plan provides different coverages for different groups of people.

In the United States, coverage and reimbursement of prescription drugs are the responsibility of both public and private payers, as opposed to European countries where coverage and reimbursement typically occurs through publicly financed national healthcare systems. CMS, the largest public payer, provides coverage for the vast majority of prescription drugs once they earn approval from the FDA. Prior to making coverage decisions, European jurisdictions typically require that high-risk, innovative, or costly devices undergo a health technology assessment.

Many would argue that here, in the United States, we have the best healthcare in the world. We benefit from the most up to date medical technologies, medications, and services. People come from every corner of the world to take advantage of our top notch physicians and facilities. But is this reputation warranted, and if so, at what cost? The average annual cost per US resident is $7,681; this comprises 16.2% of our gross domestic product. These costs rank us among the highest of industrialized nations (Lundy, 2010). Does this high expenditure equate to better outcomes? According to the National Scorecard on US Health System Performance (2008), the US received a 65 out of 100 possible points.

Health care systems are organizations that are formed to meet the overall health needs of the population. Health care is regarded as one of the leading cause in promoting not only physical and mental health but the well-being of the population. Legislation is implemented requiring government to offer services to all members of its society. The role of health services and the organizations that provide aid is to focus on the health of an individual and to uphold their human rights. According to WHO (2013), a “well-functioning health care system requires a robust financing mechanism, a well-trained and adequately-paid workforce, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies, and well maintained facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicines and technologies (World Health Organization; 2013).

3. Not only that, Americans are a lot less healthy than the British, due to diabetes, lung disease, heart attacks, and cancer. I personally think it is terrible that we spend way more money on healthcare for way less