America’s Health Care Empire
According to Business Insider, if America’s health care system was a country, it would have the sixth largest economy in the entire planet. And despite it being wealthy, it’s the only industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system (Statistics). America’s health care system is an atrocity in our society because it is bankrupting millions of Americans in addition to offering ineffective treatment to those who need medical care.
It has been estimated that hospitals overcharge Americans by about 10 billion dollars each year (Snyder). Not that surprising, considering the outrageous medical costs. An example of this, is in 2012, when after treating a scorpion sting, an Arizona Hospital billed a woman $83,000 for the entire treatment, included the costs of two doses of antivenom (which relieved her symptoms), at nearly $40,000 per dose. In Mexico, for two doses, it would have costed $200.(Altucker). Because of the …show more content…
This is inaccurate: William Zoghbi, a president of the American College of Cardiology stated that "More testing is not necessarily better,” and that, for example, taking a pap smear every three years is better than taking it every year (Agnavall).
Others may oppose the idea of the high costs of medical care being bad for America, instead claiming that they benefit the government. Meredith Rosenthal, Harvard’s professor of Health Economics, disagrees. She explains how America’s health care programs represent huge spending categories in the national budget and how “we are wasting money in health care” on other things (Economy).
The Healthcare Industry is no longer a service, there to aid and heal Americans’ ailments, but rather a business created for drug companies, hospitals, and working individuals to make the most money possible, without any consideration of patients’
According to Business Insider, if America’s health care system was a country, it would have the sixth largest economy in the entire planet. And despite it being wealthy, it’s the only industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system (Statistics). America’s health care system is an atrocity in our society because it is bankrupting millions of Americans in addition to offering ineffective treatment to those who need medical care.
It has been estimated that hospitals overcharge Americans by about 10 billion dollars each year (Snyder). Not that surprising, considering the outrageous medical costs. An example of this, is in 2012, when after treating a scorpion sting, an Arizona Hospital billed a woman $83,000 for the entire treatment, included the costs of two doses of antivenom (which relieved her symptoms), at nearly $40,000 per dose. In Mexico, for two doses, it would have costed $200.(Altucker). Because of the …show more content…
This is inaccurate: William Zoghbi, a president of the American College of Cardiology stated that "More testing is not necessarily better,” and that, for example, taking a pap smear every three years is better than taking it every year (Agnavall).
Others may oppose the idea of the high costs of medical care being bad for America, instead claiming that they benefit the government. Meredith Rosenthal, Harvard’s professor of Health Economics, disagrees. She explains how America’s health care programs represent huge spending categories in the national budget and how “we are wasting money in health care” on other things (Economy).
The Healthcare Industry is no longer a service, there to aid and heal Americans’ ailments, but rather a business created for drug companies, hospitals, and working individuals to make the most money possible, without any consideration of patients’