Essay On Single Payer System

Many national organizations like the AMA are aware of the problems created by our current payer system, and still are not able to make changes. There are various reasons as to why all the efforts to change into a single payer country have been thwarted. One of the main reasons is greed and money. The big players of the healthcare industry (CEO's, Investors, and Healthcare professionals) want more and more money. The United States of America spends more money on healthcare than any other country. America spends almost one third of its revenue on Healthcare. Other countries, for example Canada (a universal healthcare system) spends approximately 12%, and many european countries also spend relatively less than America. Changing into one-payer system will cut down the administrative cost immensely, and will also prevent these big players to make big …show more content…
They believe highers costs and poor quality of care will result from a single payer system. Matter of fact we are dealing with these issues while we are not on a single payer system. A single-payer healthcare system will not only save patients from unusually high fees (deductibles, out of pockets maximums, co-payments, premiums and much more) but will also cut their complicated paperwork into half. Also, if everything is handled by one payer, quality will automatically improve. Patients will also have more power to make better and effective decisions regarding their health. Currently, patients have minimum power over their healthcare, for example a patient's insurance company usually dictates the quality of drugs (generic or real) administered to them and according to my experience most physicians and other healthcare professionals don't even inform the patients about the inactive ingredients in generic brands which could potentially make the patients