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Thesis: Although the US spends more on healthcare than the UK, the UK healthcare system is freely open to all British citizens and it includes technology, healthcare facilities, staff, delivery, coverage, financing, and pharmaceuticals.

Background

It is imperative to note that regarding the healthcare systems of the U.S and the United Kingdom, there are notable differences, as well as similarities. Although the U.S. health care system has been documented as being the most expensive in the world, studies have shown that the United States underperforms in regards to other countries, in particularly, the United Kingdom. What’s more, the U.S. is ranking last on the areas of health outcomes, the quality, as well as the efficiency. Moreover, more U.S. physicians have been facing challenges in relation to patient care and resolving administrative issues. However, according to Trotter (2011) much of the American health care policies have been borrowed from the U.K’s healthcare system due to historical reasons. Nevertheless, the fundamental differences occur in the manner in which both countries offer their healthcare services (Jonas et. al, 2013).

Objective

This paper will expound on the comparison between the two countries healthcare system and articulate on both the differences and similarities.

Supporting points

1. UK has a socialized healthcare system

The NHS is a fully comprehensive system, which includes technology, healthcare facilities, staff, delivery, coverage, financing, and pharmaceuticals. There is a current emerging U.K private healthcare industry, which includes two large private insurers, but they are not popular. These two insurers are BUPA and AXA PP (Aspalter, Uchida & Gauld, 2012).

2. The UK government wholly funds the healthcare program, unlike in the US

UK ensures that it spends a substantial amount of money specifically on preventative medicine to keep its citizens healthy. The government ensures that expensive treatment is drastically reduced through this method (King, 2011).

3. The U.K’s government guarantees the paramount right to healthcare access to all its citizens through the noble NHS program

NHS is primarily a market-minimized, as well as a National Health Service model, which is the key means of obtaining healthcare services in the country. The NHS ensures that quality healthcare is given to all citizens whatsoever

Counter-Arguments

Aneurin Bevan, who was a British politician, founded the U.K healthcare system immediately after the infamous World War II. Ideally, this healthcare system is government-run, and it is free specifically at the point of access mainly to its users ( Jiang, Friedman, and Begun (2010). However, it is not ‘free’ since the NHS (National Health Service) is paid through taxation. Hence, the users mainly pay for the NHS through their taxes Response to Counter-Arguments

In the US, the healthcare situation is expensive because the people are forced to look for private healthcare insurance, whereas the government should be responsible for all the funding (Horwitz and Nichols, 2009). The same citizens also pay higher taxes than those paid in the UK, but still end up sources private sources for their healthcare. In the case of UK, the government at least makes use of these taxes to cater to the healthcare requirements of the people, and this makes the system there better by far. Conclusion

It is worth noting that both healthcare systems have various similarities, which include struggling with escalating costs of healthcare for its citizens, and both have embarked on vital programs, which will make healthcare better. Conversely, according to Nolte and McKee (2010), both countries have instituted noble reforms, which will keep their healthcare systems intact. In principle, the U.S is ensuring that it enacts subsidies and reforms, which will enable more citizens, acquire affordable health care although a majority of them lack insurance (Niles, 2011).

References

Aspalter, C, Uchida, Y, & Gauld, R. (2012). Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia. New York: Routledge.

Horwitz, J. R., and Nichols, A. (2009). Hospital ownership and medical services: market mix, spillover effects, and nonprofit objectives. Journal of Health Economics, 28(5), 924-937.

Jiang, H. J., Friedman, B., and Begun, J. W. (2010). Factors associated with high-quality / low-cost hospital performance, Journal of Health Care Finance, 32(3), 39-52.

Jonas, S., Goldsteen, R. L., Goldsteen, K., & Jonas, S. (2013). Jonas' introduction to the U.S. health care system. New York: Springer Pub. Co.

King, M. E. (2011). The determinants of private medical insurance prevalence in England, 2000–2005. Health Services Research, 40(19),195–212.

Niles, N. J. (2011). Basics of the U.S. health care system. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett.

Nolte, E. & McKee, M. (2010). Measuring the health of nations: updating an earlier analysis. Health Affairs, 27(17), 58–71.

Trotter, G. (2011). The moral basis for healthcare reform in the United States. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 20(1), 102-107.