In today’s modern times, political, religious, and ethical beliefs can change dramatically from person to person but the average adult American today can agree that the national healthcare system is broken and does not work for America. The current healthcare system is a tanglement of inefficiencies, costly practices, and poor service that hurts the wallets, happiness, and overall well being of the average American. In America today, the country spends over 2.6 trillion dollars on healthcare annually, but the country ranks 37th in the world for the health care satisfaction and outcomes. Current health care economics and the service transfer creates a variety of obstacles such as cost, efficiency, choice, and quality for the citizen and and doctors the same. The modern healthcare
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A tribute to why American health care is so high in price is that insurance companies are so weak in power. For example, in America there are hundreds of different carriers, this means that no single insurer has a large negotiating power, and this causes pharmaceutical companies, orthopedic device manufacturers, and large hospital networks such as for profit Tenet can charge as they like for services. Insurance is a necessity for America because the average modern adult cannot afford to pay directly to healthcare manufacturers and hospitals. Recently however, The United States government passed a large increase of health insurance coverage across the nation, many call Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, expected to insure 26 million people by 2024 which will help many Americans. However, the plan is not a solution though to the problem at hand, it simply forces citizens to purchase one of the hundreds of private health insurance plans furthering the
A tribute to why American health care is so high in price is that insurance companies are so weak in power. For example, in America there are hundreds of different carriers, this means that no single insurer has a large negotiating power, and this causes pharmaceutical companies, orthopedic device manufacturers, and large hospital networks such as for profit Tenet can charge as they like for services. Insurance is a necessity for America because the average modern adult cannot afford to pay directly to healthcare manufacturers and hospitals. Recently however, The United States government passed a large increase of health insurance coverage across the nation, many call Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, expected to insure 26 million people by 2024 which will help many Americans. However, the plan is not a solution though to the problem at hand, it simply forces citizens to purchase one of the hundreds of private health insurance plans furthering the