Assignment
Governments have provided full services to public for a long time. Recently, some of the services have been shared the responsibility by private companies and governments, such as education and health care. However, privatization become a notable topic issue recently. This essay will discuss reasons to support privatizing national public health systems which includes, health care resources and medical industry productivity. It will then present argument against privatization including disparity access to the health care and health care become marketization.
The first argument for privatizing national public health system is about health care resources. Firstly, medical equipment has been efficiently used. In the past few years, …show more content…
Firstly, privatization makes more profits, such as over treatment and over charges for residents. Individuals would currently unknown about private insurance. (Overtveit, 2003, p.8) No one knows at what level of use of private insurance this political pressure would become …show more content…
Private hospital offers more doctors and nurses, and it affect to the public system. Thus, individuals would wait more time in the public hospital because of a lack of doctors and nurses. (Overtveit, 2003, p.8) For example, in America, Maarse (2006, p.2) state that medical insurance is increasing the costs. As the private insurers have the same issues like the economy- inflationary influence. The benefits is from the private hospitals and doctors. Otherwise, doctors have high salary from doing more expensive procedures. Out-of- pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries are substantial and growing. Moreover, because Medicare pays for care in a market based private system, it experiences many of the same inflationary forces that affect the private insurance system, including profit-maximizing hospitals and physicians’ groups. In addition, doctors’ fees are skewed to reward highly paid specialists for doing as many expensive procedures as possible. As a result, inflation in the Medicare system is almost as high as inflation in the private sector and is similarly unsustainable Another argument against is privatization have different standards of health care. It would cause patients’ confidentiality problem. Marketization is coming to healthcare, such as medical products and services are all be packed to easier advertising obviously (Overtveit, 2003, p.11). Commodification is
Governments have provided full services to public for a long time. Recently, some of the services have been shared the responsibility by private companies and governments, such as education and health care. However, privatization become a notable topic issue recently. This essay will discuss reasons to support privatizing national public health systems which includes, health care resources and medical industry productivity. It will then present argument against privatization including disparity access to the health care and health care become marketization.
The first argument for privatizing national public health system is about health care resources. Firstly, medical equipment has been efficiently used. In the past few years, …show more content…
Firstly, privatization makes more profits, such as over treatment and over charges for residents. Individuals would currently unknown about private insurance. (Overtveit, 2003, p.8) No one knows at what level of use of private insurance this political pressure would become …show more content…
Private hospital offers more doctors and nurses, and it affect to the public system. Thus, individuals would wait more time in the public hospital because of a lack of doctors and nurses. (Overtveit, 2003, p.8) For example, in America, Maarse (2006, p.2) state that medical insurance is increasing the costs. As the private insurers have the same issues like the economy- inflationary influence. The benefits is from the private hospitals and doctors. Otherwise, doctors have high salary from doing more expensive procedures. Out-of- pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries are substantial and growing. Moreover, because Medicare pays for care in a market based private system, it experiences many of the same inflationary forces that affect the private insurance system, including profit-maximizing hospitals and physicians’ groups. In addition, doctors’ fees are skewed to reward highly paid specialists for doing as many expensive procedures as possible. As a result, inflation in the Medicare system is almost as high as inflation in the private sector and is similarly unsustainable Another argument against is privatization have different standards of health care. It would cause patients’ confidentiality problem. Marketization is coming to healthcare, such as medical products and services are all be packed to easier advertising obviously (Overtveit, 2003, p.11). Commodification is