MARKET RESEARCH AND SEGMENTATION (SLP)

Health Care Delivery System in the United States

The U.S. Spends too much on health care services. It is true because the report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicates that the United State spends nearly three times on healthcare as the average of other nations with similar revenues (Abel-Smith, 2016). The findings show that U.S. pharmacists buy drugs at an elevated cost, doctors get paid more, hospital servicers diagnostics costs more and most of the funds are channeled to planning, controlling and monitoring health services at the managerial stage. Notwithstanding making heavy investments in a healthcare setting, American live shorter lives than individuals in 30 other states (Greenwald, 2010). “Life expectancy” according to Mahon (2015) is one factor that measures the efficiency of the healthcare industry, and the U.S. is ranked poorly with a life expectancy of 79.3 years indicating a weak healthcare system.

It is true that the poor lack quality health care in the United States. This is because the most uninsured persons are the poor people who have at least one worker in the household. The truth is that poor people don’t have insurance coverage whether Obamacare or Triumpcare. They have very limited choices when it comes to receiving care in American hospitals. For starters, they cannot choose where they want to receive care or what doctor to receive care from. Studies have established that the uninsured have minimal chances than those with insurance cover to obtain preventive care and services for major health conditions and chronic diseases (Mahon, 2015).

The systems in other states are improved compared to U.S. health care systems is not true. The United States, for instance, has a combination of both private and public system. This means the American government covers the elderly bills through Medicare program, the low-income people are covered through government’s Medicaid program, and most people depend on their employer to provide for insurance while others buy their own insurance (Greenwald, 2010). Conversely, other countries have a universal health care, which means that its entire people receive a basic level of coverage through the government is controls what the program will run.

The U.S. Healthcare system is in crisis today because everyday health care costs are rising and threatening coverage for millions of people. It becomes hard for people coming from the rural setting to access both primary care physicians and subspecialist. This is a crisis that questions the delivery of quality health services.

The health care is a basic right of every person, and not a privilege to be available and affordable only for a majority. Proponents contend that it is morally unjust for people to be denied healthy living based on the limitation of their income. They add to say that providing health care for all is a part of the social contract all Americans participate.

References

Abel-Smith, B. (2016). An introduction to health: policy, planning and financing. Routledge.

Greenwald, H. (2010). Health Care in the United States: Organization, Management, and Policy. John Wiley & Sons: San Francisco, CA

Mahon, M. (2015). The U.S. Spends More on Health Care Than Other High-Income Nations but Has Lower Life Expectancy, Worse Health. Retrieved from http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/2015/oct/us-spends-more-on-health-care-than-other-nations