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Medical Issues in America

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Medical Issues in America

America being a superpower nation in the world does not exempt her from having worries on various issues that might be affecting her population. This nation just like any other nation comprises a worrying population that worries on various trending and emerging issues. However, issues dealing with medical seems to have taken a greater tall among the American population. This might have been due to the detrimental effects that health issues have caused to the American population. Therefore, this paper focuses on medical issues that affect the American population.

Studies on world health trends show that medical healthcare is one of the greatest issues that affect the world`s population. As a result of the nations are the lookout to ensure that their population get better medical services and live better lifestyles in order to avoid issues concerning lifestyle diseases (Young, 2015). Therefore, health is a world issue America as a nation has not to be spared on this issue. America`s population still remains one of the worrying world`s population as its one of the population that is highly affected with lifestyle diseases and with the nation facing numerous medical challenges this indeed is a great impact that as a nation there must be a reason to worry.

The study further shows that an issue of great concern for the Americans is the accessibility and affordability of better healthcare services. This issue stands at 54% with most of the American population being concerned about how they can easily access better and affordable healthcare services (Young, 2015). This is due to the fact that the American population is increasingly growing worried about the lifestyle diseases that are affecting the population and sometimes even leading to untimely deaths. Therefore, this issue has raised concern among the Americans as they getting concerned on how the federal government should come up with healthcare bills that cover the medical bills of its population.

American medical service providers have turned into fraudsters and lost their ethics. This is because the study shows that healthcare providers have turned into cheats that con their customers on the broad daylight. In this case, it has been determined that the physicians, nursing homes, medical equipment companies, and dentists have turned into crooks by sometimes billing wrong information to the insurance companies and it's mostly the private companies that are targeted (Ciment, 2015). The billing information can be of an individual who died long before he/she could receive the stated medical attention, or rather he/she might be alive but not in need of such medical covers. Besides that, the issue of frauds has manifested into various forms in the medical sector, some of the common ways being what is termed as self-referrals to the laboratories that they own or have shares and high demand of money from patients in order to take part in drug trials in which the physician stands to benefit. Therefore, this means that the medical service providers have turned this into a money making industry rather than as a way of helping cure the ailing population.

Another medical challenge that faces the American population is the issue of racial and gender discrimination in the medical sector. Research shows that discrimination is still deeply rooted among the American population. As a result, the African American population are the most affected, they are less likely to get proper medical recommendations whenever they need one as compared to their whites’ counterparts (Woosley, 2015). This is a similar case for the gender-based issues whereby the females are less likely to be recommended for proper medical care as compared to their male counterparts. Therefore, these issues of racial and gender discrimination still provide a medical challenge in the provision of proper medications for all patients without discriminating.

Besides that, another biggest challenge in the American medical system is the privatization of healthcare services and the lack of medical care provided by the nation. This is major a set back because investors have seen a niche in this and turned medical provision services into money minting machines. As a result, the nation losses approximately $2.6trillion which is so huge in the industry (Ciment, 2015). The country does not have a system that caters for the citizens below 65 years rather they have to depend on the private insurance companies who most of the times liaise with the medical service providers in blackmailing the American population. In addition, the direct fee payment of the medical fee is one of the factors that increases these cases of frauds in the sector as under 65 years are expected to pay or be aided by a private insurance company under one parent member of the company.

Finally, as a result of the privatization of medical cover and use of direct fee payment US government has the highest expenditure in terms of health care than any other industrialized nation. For instance, studies show that in 2009 the expenditure for the US in medical care was $7960, this was 50% higher than the countries with the highest expenditure in the medical sectors such as Switzerland and Norway (Woosley, 2015). 80% higher than Canada`s expenditures and 2.3 times higher than that of the United Kingdom. However, this high expenditure can be justified and understandable if the quality of the services provided meets this high expenditure, but it’s unbelievable that study still shows irrespective of this high expenditure the US still lags behind quality in medical service provision when compared with its peers.

In summary, the American healthcare system has a long way to go in order to ensure that its population is well taken care of without having to incur high medical costs. Besides that, there is also a need to improve on the quality of medical services provided in order to compete favorably with its peers in the sector.

References

Ciment, J. (2015). Social issues in America: an encyclopedia. Routledge.

Woosley, R. L. (2015). Drugs that prolong the QT interval and/or induce torsades de pointes. Georgetown Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics. Available at: http://www. torsades. org.

Young, J. H. (2015). The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Century America. Princeton University Press.